massachusetts

Retells, in graphic novel format, the voyage of the "Mayflower, " the ship that brought the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, describing the reasons for the journey and the hardships the passengers endured during the ocean crossing.

Boston is a city on the eastern coast of the United States. Learn about the history of Boston as well as how it continues to be an important seaport community.

Cartoons and facts combine to provide a portrait of what life was like for the Puritan pilgrims in early-seventeenth-century England; aboard the "Mayflower" on their way to America; and in Plymouth, the colony they founded upon their arrival.

Recreates the first harvest feast celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 using the Pilgrim and Indian actors and the seventeenth-century setting of Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Describes the Pilgrims' first years in Plymouth and the first Thanksgiving.

Through words and vivid artwork, tells the story of bookseller Henry Knox, who in 1775 dragged 59 cannons the 225 wilderness miles from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, to aid his fellow Revolutionary War patriots.

Describes the formation of the all black 54th Massachusetts Regiment and its valiant battle history from 1863 to 1865.

The tragic story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.

Abandoned and set adrift on a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor.

When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.