massachusetts

Since a tragedy she cannot remember, Louise has changed and locked her feelings inside but through friends and notes from a secret admirer she begins to find herself again.

In a 1930s Massachusetts farm town torn by the Depression, racial tension, and other hardships, Charlie Anne and her black next-door neighbor Phoebe form a friendship.

Mem, 12, keeps a diary of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.

Young Paul Revere and his friends form a club whose members ring the bells at Christ Church, an experience which teaches him responsibility and other lessons that he uses as an adult in the American Revolution.

Tells the story of the first Pilgrims to come to the New World in 1620 and the Mayflower Compact, the first document of self-government.

In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise.

In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on historical events.

Surveys the history, geography, government, and economy of the state of Massachusetts as well as the diverse ways of life of its people.

Tells the life story of American hero Paul Revere, describing the work of a silversmith and explaining how significant the things he did in the American Revolution were.

Fictional diary entries recount the true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.