pennsylvania

Presents a history of the Mason-Dixon line, including how it came to be, and the symbolism it holds in America. Includes black-and-white illustrations.

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

In Pittsburgh in 1952, Franny Katzenback, a teen recovering from polio, strikes up a friendship with a loquacious flea named Fleabrain.

Superstitious before being diagnosed with leukemia, high school senior Mia becomes irrationally dependent on horoscopes, good luck charms, and the like when her life shifts from cheerleading and parties to chemotherapy and platelets, while her parents obsess and lifelong friend Gyver worries.

Examines the complex and conflicting issues surrounding the hunting of deer.

Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.

Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, Verity Boone gets caught up in the mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.

Most people will, at some point or another, either find themselves dressed in a tiny hospital gown or staring at someone else dressed in a tiny hospital gown. Whether from the perspective of a patient, a family member, or a medical professional, we all have a significant stake in the process of medical education. While numerous memoirs recount physicians' grueling experiences during residency, few focus on the even more formative portion of medical training: the third year of medical school-the clinical year. Short White Coat: Lessons from Patients on Becoming a Doctor is the disarmingly honest, yet endearing and sometimes funny account of a medical student's humbling initiation into the world of patient care.

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.