Pryor, Bonnie

In the early years of the Revolutionary War, eleven-year-old Thomas and his family escape a bloody massacre at Wyoming Valley and endure innumerable hardships as they try to make their way to Philadelphia.

Four episodes demonstrate the imaginative games Grandpa Bear plays with Samantha and the affection between them.

Trying her best to be good before Christmas, Amanda Pig does an errand for her mother and is helped by her little sister April.

Amanda has many misadventures on the way to Violet's party and discovers how really helpful her little sister April can be.

Amanda has many misadventures on the way to Violet's party and discovers how really helpful her little sister April can be.

As a young girl in Kentucky, Lottie dreams of the distant ocean, but she doesn't get to live there until much later.

Jamie is disappointed when a huge blizzard cancels her birthday party, until unexpected visitors arrive to create a winter picnic and a very special birthday.

Nine-year-old Martin has a busy year in the fourth grade as he tries to find his own identity both at school and among his large and busy family.

Samantha, a middle child who envies certain qualities in her older brother and younger sister, discovers her mother is planning to remarry and schemes to prevent it.

Simon, a young Polish Jew, and his family are forced by Nazis to leave their home for the filth and hunger of the Warsaw ghetto then, when his family is all taken away, he escapes to fight for survival in the countryside. Includes facts about the Holocaust.