Muldoon, Kathleen M

Explores the reactions of African-Americans after the passage of the Jim Crow laws which made African-Americans separate but equal, discussing court cases, race relations and more.

Emily is devastated when her mother puts her and her brother James into an orphanage, and vows to find her way back home again.

Hannah and ten other children travel to Texas together, where they hope to be adopted.

Danny Murphy hopes to find a better life with his new adoptive family, but instead he feels trapped and alone.

Rizzo travels to Illinois on the Orphan Train in the hopes of finding a family to adopt him and give him a new life.

P.J., a young teen, is embarrassed by his father's deafness, but an understanding teacher, good friends, and a newly discovered talent for chess, help him develop new respect for his loving parent.

An orphan boy from Boston travels on an "orphan train" to Michigan, where he is adopted by a farmer and his wife, but they soon leave the farm for the copper mines of the Upper Peninsula.

Brothers Topo and Mono discover a skeleton in a shack and decide top play detective.

Explores the science of forces and motion, covering pushing and pulling, the laws of motion, kinetic and potential energy, and important dates in the history of physics.

Jean Paul and his family risk their lives to immigrate to America from Haiti in 1991.