fiction

After her father leaves the family farm on Lost Mountain to be General Lee's guide, Addie finds ways to remember him-- even when he does not return at the end of the war.

In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.

Features American Girl Addy, who learns that growing up is more than a new dress and looking like a proper young lady when a white girl is mean to her.

In 1824 New Mexico, Josefina and her sisters argue as they weave, until Josefina thinks of a way to make their work more fun. Includes historical notes on blanket weaving in New Mexico in 1824 and instructions for dyeing a t-shirt.

Wishbone the dog, determined to help his friend Joe Talbot overcome his fears and suspicions, imagines himself as Ichabod Crane, the famous nineteenth-century schoolteacher who thinks he knows all about getting rid of ghosts and evil spirits until he encounters the Headless Horseman.

In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.

In ancient China, a hardworking ferryman who tries to please his demanding and unappreciative passengers learns an important lesson from a beggar sitting patiently by the riverbank.

With the help of Eskimos, Jan Welzl survives a perilous journey from central Europe to the Arctic regions in the late 1800s.

In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family.

A young weaver in twelfth-century China saves her people from drought and foreign invasion by weaving the imperial dragon's robe.