fiction

Benjamin Franklin's seven-year-old grandson recounts the events of his grandfather's visit to France seeking aid for the revolutionaries in America.

Nine-year-old Ellen Wayles Randolph describes her relationship with her grandfather, Thomas Jefferson.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

An October blizzard and a warning from a passing Native American compel Charles Ingalls to move his family to town in the winter of 1880-81, and when the weather keeps the supply train from arriving, Almanzo Wilder and his brother make the brave decision to go in search of provisions.

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.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

The boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and, especially, St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern?.

Two boys living along the Hudson River track historical clues and try to elude a crazed treasure-hunter as they search for bounty rumored to have been hidden in 1699.

A goose named Willoughby visits London, meets a friendly actor-playwright named Shakespeare, and helps make literary history.

Relates events in author Louisa May Alcott's tenth year, 1843, when her family moved from Boston to a farm where, along with an odd assortment of idealists, they try to establish a community based on equality and love.