Brave Kids

by Susan E Goodman

Published 1 March 2002

Hazelle Boxberg

by Susan E Goodman

Published 1 February 2004
Texas Bound
Hazelle has been living in the Grace Home, an orphanage in New York City, for almost a year. Now she and several other children have been put on a train headed for Texas, where they will be placed with families that want children. But Hazelle isn't an orphan, and her new home isn't what she expected.
Will Hazelle find a place where she belongs?
Hazelle Boxberg was a real eleven-year-old girl who traveled to Texas on an orphan train in 1918. Her story is as exciting as any novel.

Robert Henry Hendershot

by Susan E Goodman

Published 1 March 2003
War!

Over his mother's objections Robert Henry Hendershot has joined the Union Army as a drummer boy. He wants to see battle and capture a confederate soldier -- but his company commander says he's too young and removes him from the pontoon carrying troops across the Rappahannock to face the rebels at Fredericksburg.
Can Robert find a way to become a hero?

Cora Frear

by Susan E Goodman

Published 1 March 2002
Based on an historic account, Cora Frear and her father find themselves in danger when they are surrounded by a prairie fire in nineteenth-century Iowa.