Fire in the Valley

by Tracey West

Published 21 October 1993
Twelve-year-old Sarah's feelings about life on her family's California farm change when she writes a letter to President Teddy Roosevelt to protest diverting water for the growing city of Los Angeles and when she saves her twin brother from a fire.

Mr. Peale's Bones

by Tracey West

Published 23 April 2000
An eleven-year-old boy living in New York State joins the expedition of nineteenth-century artist and scientist Charles Willson Peale to dig for mammoth bones on a nearby farm.

Voyage of the Half Moon

by Tracey West

Published 23 December 1999
A fictionalized account of Henry Hudson's third attempt to find the Northwest Passage, sailing up what will come to be known as the Hudson River, accompanied by his twelve-year-old son.