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The first four years

2001
During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

Frontiers aflame

Jane Cannon Campbell Revolutionary War heroine when America had only heroes
1987

The gold in the grave

2006
Grave robbers devise an elaborate plan to steal King Tutanhkhamen's riches after his funeral.

Leprechaun in late winter

2012
Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.

The puzzle of the Indian arrowhead

2006
Grant, Weng-Ho, and Seve go on a field trip to Warm Springs, Georgia, to visit the home of President Franklin Roosevelt and learn about FDR, polio, and a Creek Indian legend.

Addy studies freedom

2002
Addy's jubilation over her family's new freedoms is cut short by the news that President Lincoln has been shot and killed.

Bound for Oregon

1996
A fictionalized account of the true life journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.

Slater's mill

1972
A fictional account of a young English immigrant's efforts to build America's first automated spinning mill entirely from his memory of similar factories and machines in England.

The hatmaker's sign

a story by Benjamin Franklin
2004
To heal the hurt pride of Thomas Jefferson as Congress makes changes to his Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin tells his friend the story of a hatmaker and his sign.

The Wright 3

2007
Petra and Calder are drawn into another mystery when unexplained accidents and ghostly happenings occur in Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House.

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