massachusetts

An illustrated account of the life of John Howland, the young servant who was indentured to Pilgrim John Carver, describes how he embarked on the Mayflower and survived a fall off the ship before helping his ill shipmates by scouting out a safe harbor.

Seventh-grader Jeremy Miner, the only boy in a school of 475 girls, unleashes a series of pranks in hopes of getting expelled.

When girls start experiencing strange tics and other mysterious symptoms at her high school, only Colleen connects their fate to the ill-fated Salem Village, where a similarly bizarre epidemic occured three centuries ago.

Describes the life, training, and equipment of the colonial minuteman, the men tasked with defending the colonies.

Frank and Joe travel to Massachusetts where they investigate a death and other mysterious events occurring at an amusement park.

Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.

Describes the life of the silversmith who made the historic ride to announce the coming of British troops to Massachusetts at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

A biographical novel of Elizabeth Winthrop, a courageous woman who defied Puritan conventions and beliefs.

Spending the summer marooned with her mother and stepfather in a snooty Massachusetts shore town bores Cassandra until she meets a dreamy stranger who claims the year is 1925, sweeping Cassandra into a mystery a hundred years in the making.

Provides facts about the first Thanksgiving, describing the lifestyle of the Pilgrims, their pact with the Wampanoag, and the meal and festival they shared.