maryland

Contains a biography of Frederick Douglass, the former slave turned abolitionist and author of an antislavery newspaper, and includes information on Douglass, from his childhood, to his struggles as a slave, to his leading the first all-black volunteer army in the Civil War.

When the Sullivan sisters' grandmother gathers the entire family on Christmas to announce that she is removing them all from her will unless whoever it is that has offended her confesses in writing by New Year's Day, everybody begins to consider what they may have done.

Thirteen-year-old Kenny secretly calls himself "Cricket Man" after a summer of rescuing creatures from his family's Bethesda, Maryland, pool, which gives him more self-confidence and an urge to be a hero, especially for his depressed sixteen-year-old neighbor, Jodie.

After her grandmother's death Sarah Parsons, nearly sixteen, delights in exploring her family's centuries-old Maryland estate with new friend Jackson, but soon she is having vivid visions of her ancestors, one of whom may be a threat to Sarah's autistic brother, Sam.

Nineteenth-century African-American statesman Frederick Douglass tells his life story, describing his years as a slave, his escape, his role in the abolitionist movement, and his experiences in politics and diplomacy.

Alice fills the summer before her junior year of high school with a job at the mall, hanging out with her friends, and wishing she had a bigger family.

The Hunsenmeir sisters, Julia and Louise, first introduced in the books "Six of One, " and "Bingo, " approach their fortieth birthdays as America heads toward World War II, and continue their own, often scandalous battles, in the Southern town of Runnymede, Maryland.

Carson Blake, having overcome his difficult childhood by growing up to be a police officer in Maryland, sees all he has worked for put into peril when he shoots and kills a young man wielding a cell phone Blake mistook for a gun.

Details a day in the life of a rural Maryland boy of Piscataway and Apache descent, looking at his family, the history of both his tribes, and some traditional ceremonies and customs that are still observed in the early twenty-first century.