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Freedom seeker

a story about William Penn
2003
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.

William Penn

founder of democracy
2000
A biography of the famous Quaker who founded Pennsylvania and guaranteed religious freedom to all its settlers.

The story of William Penn

1994
The story of the Quaker who founded the state of Pennsylvania.

Homespun Sarah

2003
Simple rhyming text presents the everyday life of a young girl, living on a Pennsylvania farm in the early eighteenth century, who is quickly outgrowing her dress.

Hannah, divided

2002
In 1934, a thirteen-year-old with a gift for numbers is offered the chance to leave her family's dairy farm to spend one term at an exclusive Philadelphia girls' school preparing for a scholarship exam.

William Penn

founder of Pennsylvania
2000
A biography of William Penn, founder of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania, who struggled throughout his life for the freedom to practice his religion.

The underdogs

2011
Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.

The last full measure

2010
In 1863 Pennsylvania, fourteen-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while trying to stay out of the way of her brother David, who is in charge while their father serves as a doctor in the Union army, and to keep her friend Marvelous, a free black, safe from rebel soldiers.

Powerless

2009
Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.

To Hawaii, with love

2005
Headstrong Rachel Buchanan and her friends sneak away from Blackthorn Academy and set out to find a mysterious artifact before it falls into the hands of her nemesis, Simon Blankenship, a journey that takes them to the volcanic shores of Hawaii.

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