virginia

"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Virginia"--.

Based on a true story, in April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, Charles Mears, a white, eighteen-year-old reporter, covers his first murder case. It is the trial of an uneducated African American girl named Virginia Christian who stands accused of killing her white employer. Virginia died in the electric chair, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. The book tells the story of the trial and its aftermath using actual court records, letters, newspaper stories, and personal accounts.

During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

A biography of the pirate known as Blackbeard, who may have been Edward Teach, describing how his appearance frightened enemies, and how he has been an inspiration for pirate lore and legend for almost three hundred years.

An exploration of Virginia, showing some of its most famous sights, including the Jamestown Settlement, Mount Vernon, the Shenandoah caverns, the Virginia Museum of Transportation, and more.

1958: Richard and Mildred Loving were jailed because their marriage was not legally recognized in Virginia. In 1967, Loving v. Virginia went all the way to the Supreme Court.

When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.

With her mama recently dead and her pa out of the picture since her birth, big sister Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister - and the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father - and fast. And so when a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard.