fiction

Set in New York in the Depression, this is the story of Jim Braddock, who takes up boxing to make money to feed his family, and eventually goes up against champ Max Baer, notorious for having killed two men in the ring.

In 1772 as his group of Christian Indians is being led to a new home in Ohio by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, fourteen-year-old Joseph Shabosh is torn between the minister's teachings and the tempting by a Mohegan brave to follow more traditional Indian ways.

When he is taken aboard a ship bound for China, twelve-year-old Neil Thompson is befriended by Hudson Taylor and shares adventures with him during the voyage and in China, where Taylor sets up a mission.

While spying on Samuel Kirkland, the first missionary to the Seneca Indians, Young-Wolf learns the meaning of friendship and bravery from his white-skinned brother during a life-threatening winter.

From the maple syrup party at her grandpa's house in the Big Woods in Wisconsin to parties with her school friends in Plum Creek and her first co-ed party in De Smet, Dakota Territory, Laura enjoys all kinds of gatherings.

When Laura and her family move from Wisconsin to Kansas, they make friends with a helpful neighbor who comes to their aid later when they settle in the Dakota Territory.

Antoine becomes page to the king and is able to free a friend from the galley ships with the help of his friend Father Vincent de Paul.

After sneaking a Gentile friend through the forbidden gates of the Temple, a young Jewish boy becomes a fugitive and meets Stephen who teaches him how to be a real man for God.

Patriot Patrick Henry's ten-year-old daughter Annie helps save the wheat crop on their Virginia plantation from fire and her father from a Tory spy in Richmond.