In the 1840s, there was a real vounteer firefighter named Mose Humphreys whose bravery was reknown throughout New York City. Plays about him began being performed on Broadway in 1848 and over the years his strength and heroics took on larger-than-life proportions, much like those of Paul Bunyan. Mary Pope Osborne has honed down the legends about him to a brief, dramatic, sometimes comical, but ultimately moving text of picture book length. Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher’s stunning paintings captu...
Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
In Nevada in 1861, a young Pony Express rider races for his life, pursued by seven Paiute warriors who are determined to drive white settlers out of their territory.
Going to Town (My first little house books)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Renee Graef
A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.
Dear America: The Light in the Storm (Dear America (Reissues))
by Karen Hesse
Merry Christmas from Mandie (Young Mandie Christmas Special Mysteries)
by Lois Gladys Leppard
Mandie doesn't know what to give her friends for Christmas. Then gifts begin to mysteriously appear on her doorstep, gifts that would be perfect for her friends. Where are the gifts coming from?
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
Set in 1834, this historical novel follows the adventures of two young Irish brothers and their families and friends as they endure the hardships and joys of immigrating to the Texas frontier.
Cecile and Marie-Grace Hc Box Set (American Girl)
by Sarah Masters Buckey and Denise Lewis Patrick
Having learned from the father he admires so much that the world is filled with things too special for any one person to own, a boy is upset to hear that he and his father are owned by the man in the big house where they work.
We left when the grass was green and tall. When we got to the top of the hill I could see the river that we would follow out West. Nobody spoke much, but I guessed that we were all thinking the same thing... That we had a long journey ahead of us. This epic story documents one little girl’ s adventure as she discovers the challenges, excitement and danger of America’ s frontier. Filled with drama, this tale is testament to the determination, solidarity and courage of the...
Another coming-of-age novel from the author of beloved favorite Little Women Polly Milton never questions the way she is—until she goes to visit her cousins in the city. Her cousin Fanny looks too glamorous to be Polly’s age, and wouldn’t be caught dead playing in the snow. Will Polly ever learn to be like the other girls? And does she even want to? Sometimes being old-fashioned is right in style. A timeless story by the author of Little Women.
Town Mouse House (Mouse histories)
by Nigel Brooks and Abigail Horner
A wealthy young mouse describes his home and family and the comfortable life that they lead in their large city house in 1900.
Tales from Maple Ridge Collected Set (Tales from Maple Ridge)
by Grace Gilmore
A Surprise for Caroline (American Girl: Beforever) (American Girl)
by Kathleen Ernst
Cambios Para Josefina (American Girls Collection, #6)
by Valerie Tripp
When Tía Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.