An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young girl who becomes a governess to the child of Edward Rochester, the master of Thornfield Manor, and the heartache surrounding her love for him.
During the terrible blizzard of 1888 twelve-year-old Milton Daub fashioned a pair of snowshoes with the help of his father and ventured out into the snow to buy milk for his family, and ended up buying and delivering much needed supplies for his neighbors as well.
The story of Sybil Ludington's ride on horseback to rouse American soldiers to fight against the British who were attacking Danbury, Connecticut during the American Revolution.
Recounts the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia in April of 1865 from the perspective of eleven-year-old Willie McLean, who may have witnessed the event.
In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.
Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.
Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue.
