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The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

Juan de Pareja, a slave, and his master, Velazquez, the seventeenth century Spanish court painter, develop a relationship of friendship and equality.

A biography of John Newbery that discusses his childhood in the country, family, influence on children's literature, legacy, and other related topics.

Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence.

The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

Hitty, a doll carved from mountain ash in the nineteenth century, has many adventures as she travels around the world with different owners.

The story of Daniel Boone, the famous hunter and adventurer who explored and helped settle the early West, especially Kentucky.

The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.