new england

A stranger with an evil secret harms the lives of many inhabitants of a small New England town.

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.

Describes more than fifty herbs and plants commonly used in colonial America, with illustrations of each plant and information on their uses.

Presents a brief history of gardening, and explores the history of gardening in seventeenth-century New England, looking at what settlers found already growing upon their arrival in America, and discussing garden plans, and the use of the plants for food and medicine.

Discusses the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, and notable people of the Wampanoag.

The Pepper family, including the widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children, are happy despite their poverty, but conditions improve when they are befriended by Jasper King and his very wealthy father.

Clare, working with her mother at Cossit Island Village, a living history museum reproduction of an early nineteenth-century town in New England, finds the opportunity to help two young runaways, and learns about a mystery from the past.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story.

In the middle of the Blizzard of 1978, an oil tanker was in trouble in the Salem Sound shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard immediately dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in as much trouble as the tanker. The captain of the pilot boat, the Can Do, was monitoring radio transmissions and when the Coast Guard boat reported problems the Can Do responded with her crew of four and became part of a true account of bravery and death at sea.