Wisler, G. Clifton

A fourteen-year-old ferry worker joins the army to fight for Texas's independence.

Thirteen-year-old "Jeff" Byrd has to learn to adapt to life in rual Texas, while his father fights for Texas independence. Soon he is to decide the difference between friends and enemies.

A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.

When Elias moves to an Indian reservation on the Texas frontier, where his father will be a schoolteacher, he shares many adventures with a Tonkawa Indian boy.

Following his father's example, sixteen-year old Willie Delamer joins the Second Texas Regiment and leaves his beloved Texas to fight for the Confederacy.

When his little brother is carried off by raiding Comanches, fourteen-year-old Lige disguises himself as an Indian and joins a former slave in a bold rescue attempt.

Ten-year-old Richard Woodley describes his trip to the New World aboard the Mayflower and tells about the first year spent by the Pilgrims at Pymouth.

As his family makes the long and difficult journey from Tennessee to their new home in Texas in 1852, twelve-year-old Jericho Wetherby, teased by his sister and brothers about his size, learns there are many ways to grow.

In this fact-based story, thirteen-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi.