Armstrong, Jennifer

Ten-year-old Susie and her father love living on the South Dakota prairie with its vast, uninterrupted views of land and sky, but Susie's mother greatly misses their old life in Ohio.

In 1858, the tensions between the North and South reach the Wild Rose Inn, as the Stockwells, a wealthy Southern family, visit the Inn with their slave, Moses, and young Emily MacKenzie wishes she could help Moses.

Nine-year-old Patrick promises his buddies that his baseball hero will come to their playground in Hell's Kitchen, bat for him, and chase the Copperheads out.

Through her friendship with a ginger cat, a haughty Chinese widow learns to be humble and to provide for herself.

A young girl learns the secret of a strange whittler whose carvings magically come to life.

Mairhe, who lives in an Irish slum in Washington, D.C., in the 1860s, struggles to come to grips with the impact of the Civil War on her family.

Thinking he is dreaming, Pierre, a lazy, foolish man, shows no fear as he performs many amazing and dangerous circus acts.

Absent-minded poet Wan Hu is so curious about the stars that finally, after several unsuccessful attempts, he finds a way to travel among them.

A spirited young girl does not want to leave her home in Norway to go to live in Minnesota, but aboard ship on the way to America, she proves why she is called "Lili the Brave.".