juvenile fiction

Laura Ingalls and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.

Laura and her beloved bulldog, Jack, share some wild adventures as the Ingalls family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas and later to Minnesota.

Young Pierre spends the day with surrealist artists Ren? Magritte and Salvador Dal?.

Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their eight-year-old daughter Rose continue to work to make Rocky Ridge farm in Missouri their new home.

Despite the derision of their neighbors, a young French boy and his family befriend the lonely painter who comes to their town and begin to admire his unusual paintings.

A fictionalized episode from the life of Anne Hutchinson, who arrived with her family in Massachusetts in 1634, but was soon banished for holding religious meetings and teaching ideas with which Puritan ministers disagreed.

A young Michael Jordan puts salt in his shoes, hoping it will help him grow tall enough to become a famous basketball player.

Because Marie helps her poor parents by modeling for an ill-tempered artist, she becomes a famous ballerina but not in the way she had dreamed.

Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.

Jack and Annie travel to Vienna, Austria, in 1762, where they meet the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister and help save the budding genius' life.