Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.
Adventure to the Pioneer Prairie! Plus Free Online eBook Access (Fantasy Field Trip Mysteries)
by Carole Marsh
Orphan Train West for Young Adults (Orphan Train West)
by Ms Jane Peart
An illustrated recounting of the battle of the Alamo in 1836, as told from the perspective of a jackrabbit.
Women's Suffrage: We Will Vote (Readers' Theater: Exploring History Through Plays)
by Mary Morton Cowan
A fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a fourteen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Classic Literature Collection, #19)
Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.
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.
Orphaned on the journey to America in 1872, a young Irish boy finally makes his way to Nebraska where he goes to work for a newspaper editor and learns to do the work of a printer's devil.
Ten-year-old Emmy Blue learns the true meaning of friendship--and how to quilt--while making a harrowing wagon journey from Illinois to Colorado with her family in the 1860s.