pennsylvania

In 1853, in letters to his older brother, eleven-year-old Levi describes his adventures in the Pennsylvania countryside with his African-American friend Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad.

When a local businessman and baseball coach disappears just before he is to portray Uncle Sam at the start of a Memorial Day race, ten-year-old Alex and his best friend Yasmeen investigate, despite their pact to stay away from mysteries.

Maggie Callahan journeys across the rugged Pennsylvania frontier to find her kin but, just before she reaches her destination, she is taken captive by a band of Seneca warriors and forced to travel with them along the war trail.

An overview of the shale gas industry in the Marcellus region in northeastern United States; discussing extraction by means of fracking, and the ramifications for environmental policy, energy markets, politics, and the lives of the area's residents.

Exposes the corruption of Pennsylvania judge Mark A. Ciavarella who sentenced thousands of children who committed minor offenses to a detention facility in which he had a personal financial stake, and discusses the multitude of problems with the US juvenile justice system.

Provides a detailed account of the 1874 kidnapping and ransom of a boy named Charley Ross, who was taken from his family's front yard in Philadelphia while the city was preparing for the nation's centennial celebration, describing the wide-spread media attention on the case, and discussing the efforts of the Philadelphia and New York police departments, elicit American citizens, and others to recover the child.

Discusses the details and the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman, which was about the use of public funds in connection with religion.

Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.

Eighteen-year-old Ned, having taken to hanging out at the barracks of state police Troop D in rural Pennsylvania after the death of his father, Trooper Curtis Wilcox, becomes obsessed with learning the truth about a 1954 Buick Roadmaster--apparently a conduit to the underworld--the squad has had secreted in a locked shed since 1979 when its owner mysteriously disappeared.

Tells the life story of William Penn, the seventeenth-century Quaker who founded Pennsylvania, discussing the religious persecution he faced and the influence of his government on the other colonies.