Cole, Sheila

When a 15-year-old girl with a promising future learns that she is pregnant, she faces the most difficult decision of her young life.

Twenty-five young people discuss their work experiences. Also includes a brief history of child labor laws and legal information pertinent to working minors.

A sixth-grader learns the meaning of friendship too late to help a classmate who desperately needed a friend.

When a fifteen-year-old girl with a promising future learns that she is pregnant, she faces the most difficult decision of her young life.

Mr. Goodhart tries to stop his rooster from crowing, since roosters are illegal in the town of Bean Blossom, but his noisy bird's behavior ends up saving the town.

Recounts the girlhood of the woman who made many of the important fossil discoveries in the early nineteenth century, yet never received the credit she deserved.

Val shares her thoughts in a diary as her teenage world is turned upside down by pregnancy and as she looks for support where there seems to be only conflict.

Explains what daily life was like for children in America during selected periods of its history between the Revolution and World War II, discussing slavery, orphanages, child labor, disease and illness before modern medicine, crime, school, young soldiers, and love, play, and friendship, presenting personal stories and over one hundred photos and illustrations.

After a downpour a little girl and her father go out to pick blackberries, encountering a variety of wildlife on the way.

A little girl and her mother talk about all the things they will do at the beach, when the tide is low.