Fleischman, Paul

Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier.

"Using copy machines to make decals, silhouettes, flip books, films, and much more!"--Title page.

When Olivia is summoned by her father, a man she barely remembers, to determine whether she is worthy of inheriting his legacy, she embarks on a personal odyssey that teaches her the true meaning of love and kinship.

In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.

After being forced to sell the animals he loves, a farmer cuts his hedge to look like them and teaches his sons about following their hearts.

When Jack goes to sea, his parents watch as the tree planted at his birth reflects his fortunes and misfortunes.

In this horror novel parody, three members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique become convinced that the new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.

Four short stories present the adventures of itinerant artisans and tradesmiths as they travel through a small New England town in the year 1800.

While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.

Selections from anthropological writings are paired with photographs of twentieth-century people engaged in similar activities.