Eight-year-old Sarah's high spirits help make her family's long journey from Missouri to Oregon more bearable, though they do cause both her and her best friend Almira Ann some problems.
As flood waters sweep his house down the Mississippi River, a boy is joined by a mountain lion who is also trying desperately to stay alive.
Based on actual events, Jose's Buffalo Hunt is the true story of an eleven-year-old boy and his first participation in the annual buffalo hunt on the Llano Estacado in 1866. Jose Arrellanes lived with his parents and his older brother Pablo in the hamlet of San Miguel, on the Pecos River in northern New Mexico. Like their neighbors, the family farmed, raising corn, beans, chile, and onions. Each fall they traveled to the Texas Panhandle to bring down the buffalo, or cibolas, and carry the meat...
Lights for Minneapolis (American Adventure (Barbour), #27)
by Susan Martins Miller and Adam Wallenta
A Possum's Expedition: Lewis & Clark and Sacagawea (Possum's Holiday and History)
by Jamey M. Long
The Lost Village of Central Park (Mysteries in Time (Silver Moon Press))
by Hope Lourie Killcoyne
In Seneca Village, a thriving neighborhood of African Americans and recent immigrants in the middle of New York City in the 1850s, friends Kayla and Sooncy face separation when the city announces that by eminent domain it plans to take their land to build Central Park.
Yearning for adventure and tired of farm life in New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Mary Margaret Malarkey journeys to California in 1848 to find her father who arrived earlier to make his fortune in the goldfields.
A young boy plays a key role when the War of 1812 comes to his Massachusetts coastal fishing village. The little town of Sandy Bay, Massachusetts, was the site of one of the wildest invasions in U.S. history, when the might of the British Empire came up against hardheaded New England townsfolk. The Invasion of Sandy Bay, based on eyewitness accounts of actual events, tells the talethrough the eyes of a twelve-year-old boyof what happened on the night when the British put too much gunpowder in...
Hawks Don't Say Goodbye (Nathan T. Riggins Western Adventure, #6)
by Stephen Bly
Pick your own path, pioneer! Will you hit the Oregon Trail in March or May? You're in control of this covered wagon! Travel two thousand miles west in this rollicking journey featuring full-colour 8-bit art throughout and more than 50 story possibilities. Follow color paths on the page, make a decision, follow the trail, and turn the page to the corresponding tab. Perfect for young readers who love graphic novels, video games, and Minecraft. Ford rivers, hike mountains, and make the trek to Ore...
In this sequel to "The Other Side of the Door," ten-year-old Dora makes a quilt to record her experiences as she finally starts school and her Mormon family's efforts to secure homestead rights for their farm in New Mexico.
B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. This is one of her stories.
The Sea Monsters (Victorian Tales) (Terry Deary's Historical Tales)
by Terry Deary
It's 1838, and Patrick and Grace Leary are aboard The Sirius, set to become the first ever ship to sail from Dublin to New York using only steam power. But their cousin Ben is on board Brunel's giant steam ship the Great Western in Bristol, and he's convinced he'll be in New York before them. With fires causing havoc, Brunel getting injured and one ship running out of coal, which steam driven sea monster has the power to win this dangerous race?
A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.
Elsie's Holidays at Roselands (Elsie Books (Holly Hall), #2) (Elsie Books (Hibbard), #2)
by Martha Finley
In this second volume in The Original Elsie Dinsmore Series, Elsie is forced into an awful choice between loyalty to her savior and her father's affection. The turmoil of this conflict contributes to a life-threatening illness for Elsie.