fiction

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

Although he is the bravest sheriff in the West, Cyrano is afraid to let Roxane, the town librarian, know that he has been writing love poems to her while trying to capture the Gila Monster Gang.

In this story, inspired by the real life of Oaxacan woodcarver Manuel Jimenez, a young boy dreams of colorful, exotic animals that he will one day carve in wood.

Grandpa tells his family in 1827 about Daniel Boone's leadership in settling Kentucky.

After his father and brothers fail to return from a voyage to the west, Finn, a twelve-year-old Viking, stows away on Leif Ericsson's ship and sails to North America to search for them.

The life and work of the famous Viennese painter Gustav Klimt is explored by his favorite cat.

Jimmy Spoon, a twelve-year-old boy in mid-nineteenth-century Salt Lake City, lets his yearning for adventure lead him into trouble when he accepts a horse from two Shoshoni boys, only to learn he is now expected to live with the tribe.

Matt, Emily, and Jonathan travel to Washington, D.C. in 1865 and try to stop the assassination of President Lincoln.

After a mixed-up courtship with the Hathaway sisters ends badly, eighteen-year-old Will Shakespeare jumps at the chance to go to London, where he can pursue his dream of becoming an actor and where he is about to meet the girl who will change his life forever.

When thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley discovers a rare deep-sea creature stranded in the mud of the tidal flats of Puget Sound, he finds himself thrown into the limelight, but when he continues discovering rare ocean creatures, some begin to wonder if he is an unlikely prophet.