Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth

"The son of a blacksmith and slave learns that his father is using the rhythm of his hammering to communicate with travelers on the Underground Railroad"--.

On the Nebraska prairie in 1880, eleven-year-old Emma finds a way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas while her mother, a midwife, delivers a baby on Christmas Eve.

Tells how in 1856 Kate Warne joined the Pinkerton Agency as America's first women detective and helped foil a plot to assassinate President Lincoln.

The world of sled dog racing in northern Montana forms the background for a twelve-year-old boy's adjustment to his father's death, his mother's remarriage, and the integration of two families into one.

A biography of the figure skater who was the only American to win a gold medal at the 1968 winter Olympics and the youngest skater to be inducted into skating's Hall of Fame in 1975.

A slave describes the journey he makes with his master, Captain William Clark, into the uncharted territory of the American West to find a water passageway to the Pacific Ocean.

When Reddy goes to Montana to visit his aunt and uncle, he is determined to become a rodeo champion before the summer is over, but then someone tries to steal his horse Ruff.

The world of sled dog racing in northern Montana forms the background for a twelve-year-old boy's adjustment to his father's death, his mother's remarriage, and the integration of two families into one.

Discusses the buying, breeding, and training of horses for harness racing, describes the event and its rules, and introduces several famous champions.

Eight years after the apparent death of his explorer father in the Arctic wilderness, Sam still misses him. He befriends a wild Husky and names it Kayla, after his father's lead sled dog. Sam & Kayla enter a sled race, and through her actions, Kayla teaches Sam about love, loyalty and self-sacrifice.