Mike Stearns, a former prime minister of the United States of Europe, now serving as a general for Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, is going to need all his military skills when he is sent to Saxony to restore order after rioting breaks out over the arrest of Gretchen, a member of a revolutionary group.
In West Virginia of the 1950s, Lark and her disabled brother, Termite, are raised by their aunt while Termite's father serves in the Korean War. The mysteries of their family are revealed when their town experiences a devastating flood.
In 1927, as Christmas approaches, fifteen-year-old Joan Lee hopes to get her parents' permission to celebrate the holiday, one of the problems belonging to the only Chinese American family in her small West Virginia community.
Living with her grandfather on Muckwater Mountain in West Virginia, twelve-year-old Silver aggressively pursues her dream of having a dog by working to earn the money for one.
Provides information about the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of West Virginia, and includes photographs, maps, sidebars, a time line, an almanac of state facts, and a gallery of famous West Virginians.
Living with her grandfather on Muckwater Mountain in West Virginia, twelve-year-old Silver aggressively pursues her dream of having a dog by working to earn the money for one.
Eleven-year-old Taylor spends the summer with her father and his new family in a historic house in West Virginia and, while contending with hostility from her stepsister Nicole, attempts to solve the mystery of ghosts who haunt the site.
