Dallas, Sandra

In 1880 Tenmile, a Colorado gold-mining town, twelve-year-old Sissy witnesses the hardships of her community as she assists her father, the town doctor.

In 1933, when twelve-year-old Hallie Turner and her brothers, Tom and Benny, take to the road seeking whatever work they can get, they find kindness in small-town Kansas.

Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.

In 1933, when twelve-year-old Hallie Turner and her brothers, Tom and Benny, take to the road seeking whatever work they can get, they find kindness in small-town Kansas.

Effa Commander takes pen in hand to set the record straight about what really happened between two of Butte, Montana's most celebrated citizens.

Twelve-year-old Tomi Itano, a Japanese American born in America, and her family are sent to an internment camp in Colorado in 1942, where Tomi struggles to understand why they are being treated like the enemy.

"After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to leave their California home to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado"--Provided by the publisher.

Ten-year-old Emmy Blue learns the true meaning of friendship--and how to quilt--while making a harrowing wagon journey from Illinois to Colorado with her family in the 1860s.

A woman's life on the Colorado frontier, told by Mattie McCauley, a homestead bride. She describes the hardships--weather, childbirth, Indians--how she saved Luke, her husband with some fast shooting and how she was betrayed by him when Luke's old flame, Persia, came to town. Yet she remains by his side for the sake of the family and the children.