juvenile fiction

When his father loses his fortune, a boy is taken on by a famous shipbuilder and eventually makes a maiden, record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the "Flying Cloud.".

Squanto is kidnapped to England and put on display, until he escapes and is aided in his return to America by friendly monks.

Fictional account of Woman Chief, chief of the Crow Indians who struggled for recognition as a hunter, warrior, and leader.

The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920s.

An easy-to-read fictional account of the adventures of the Roosevelt children while their father was President.

In 1817 a teenage brother and sister are relieved from the abuses of Newgate Prison in London by the prison reform efforts of Quaker minister Elizabeth Fry.

Three shepherd boys guard their sheep in the hills near Bethlehem the night Jesus is born.

Tumpie, a young black girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker, longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious street life of St. Louis in the early 1900s.

Annie Sullivan accepted a colossal challenge when she agreed to teach Helen Keller. From the time Helen learned to eat and behave, until she graduated cum laude from Radcliffe, Annie was always there to help her.

A fictional diary of Nelly Custis records the highlights of her life with "Grandpapa," George Washington, from the time he was elected President until shortly after his death.