Nessa must face down her own doubts as well as those of the local townspeople in order to save herself and her students when the schoolhouse is threatened by an unexpected prairie fire.
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.
Nessa leaves her orphanage in 1865 and settles in the little town of Prairie River, Kansas, where she relies on her Christian faith to help her survive on the frontier.
Story of the diary of Princess of Egypt, Cleopatra, who witnesses several assassination attempts against her father, the Pharaoh, and goes with him to Rome to gain support.
Expands on the folk song to tell of seventeen-year-old Clementine, whose dream of being a doctor is complicated by her drunken, gambling father, the lawlessness of 1866 Idaho Territory, and the affections of handsome Boone Reno.
Orphaned by an Indian raid while traveling West with a wagon train, fifteen-year-old Carrie Hill is befriended by the English trapper Beaver Dick and taken to live with his Indian wife Jenny and their six children.
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.
When items at the ski chalet on Blue Mountain are missing, friends Jeff, David, and Claire are suspected of stealing, and they must find the culprit to clear their names.
