pennsylvania

A biography of early English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn; describing his life, dealings with the Lenni Lenape, and legacy of religious freedom.

When her rescue of a baby hawk takes fifteen-year-old Taylor to a raptor rehabilitation center in rural Pennsylvania, their offer of a summer public relations job seems a step toward her dream of becoming a journalist.

At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, hoping to keep bloodshed away from their valley, a twelve-year-old Delaware Indian boy and his white friend search sacred land for the bones of a legendary beast.

Annie Zook, the preacher's daughter, struggles to keep her promise to her father to abandon her art for six months; but her intention to join the Amish church is sidetracked by the attention of a handsome Englishman.

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

An indentured servant looks back on his five years of service on the farm of a Pennsylvania German family in the 1760's.

Fourteen-year-old Maggie Callahan, who has a special talent for making bread, struggles to survive on the Pennsylvania frontier in the late 1700s.

In 1842, eleven-year-old twins, whose father runs a boat on the Juniata Canal in Pennsylvania, learn of a Harrisburg bookseller's plan to steal Charles Dickens's newly finished novel while Dickens himself is touring the U.S.