Presents the author's first-hand account of growing up in Mooreland, Indiana in the 1960s and 1970s, remembering her eventful family life and championing her mother's accomplishments with fondness.
A fictional journal in which eleven-year-old Minnie Swift tells how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Little Balser, a pioneer boy growing up in early nineteenth-century Indiana, has many adventures and dangerous encounters with bears while learning the ways of the woods.
Joanna Kurtz, an Amish woman, longs to be more than a bridesmaid and being a closet writer isn't her only secret when she meets Eben Troyer who hopes to make Joanna his bride, but must wait for his brother to return from the English world in order to leave his families farm in Indiana.
The author recalls how, at age nine and having just moved to Speedway, Indiana, his life took on a new meaning when he discovered that his second cousin was Don Larsen, pitcher for the New York Yankees.
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
The history of the Indiana Pacers professional basketball team from its start in 1967 to today, spotlighting the franchise's greatest players and reliving its most dramatic moments.
Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.
Eighteen-year-old Emma, a freshman at Indiana University, has enough trouble trying to figure out relationships but when her father wins fifty million dollars in a lottery, life becomes even more confusing and complicated.
