fiction

Four-year-old Elisa gets her picture taken, starts learning to read, breaks her arm, and experiences other exciting aspects of growing up.

Ezra is crazy about baseball, but his father doesn't understand what all the excitement is about.

In 1893 while working at the Chicago World's Fair, a young Italian-American girl meets two prominent women, Mrs. Potter Palmer and Jane Addams, and learns about the achievements of other women throughout history.

The lives of ten-year-old Amy and the members of her farming family are changed forever when gold is discovered on Mr. Sutter's land.

Forced to leave their homes in Georgia in 1837, Sarah Tsaluh Rogers, her family, and other Cherokees make the long and difficult journey along the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma.

Emily, a slave girl who longs to read, escapes from slavery with the help of Harriet Tubman.

An abridged version of the classic "The Odyssey," the tale of Odysseus' ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, narrated by Wishbone the television dog, with information about the author and setting of the story, and a list of characters.

To prove to her parents that she is grown up enough to babysit, Alex tries to stay out of trouble for two weeks.

Ducky Doodle loves sea monsters so much that he fails to recognize a crook when Doctor Ocular's Sea Monster Circus comes to Boogle Bay.

Searching the amusement park for a pony only Susan has seen, Susan and Kent track it to the Tunnel of Terror. As they realize the pony is trapped inside, the train begins its test run.