illinois

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

After spending eight months in a mental institution following a suicide attempt, seventeen-year-old Conrad returns home and finds that he must rebuild his life.

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

In a small town in 1928, a twelve-year-old boy savors the magic of childhood and the wonders of summer.

With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.

Working in her family's pumpkin patch every year, seventeen-year-old Jamie has dreamed of two things--dating co-worker Danny and being crowned Pumpkin Princess--but her beautiful and famous cousin Milan's visit may squash all of her hopes.

During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.

Chronicles the events surrounding the trial of eight men accussed of leading the antiwar protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago and discusses why the case became one of the most highly publicized trials of the era.

Discusses the political competition of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas with a biographical examination of the two drastically different personalities that came to the forefront of U.S. politics in the mid-nineteenth century and shaped the nation as they competed for office before the outbreak of the Civil War.