juvenile fiction

After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a D?rer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.

Illustrations and rhythmic text tell how the famous engineer, Casey Jones, risks his own life to save others.

While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.

In 1718, off the coast of North Carolina, a young cabin boy assists in the final capture and execution of Blackbeard the pirate.

As he grows up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder dreams of having a colt of his own.

Laura Ingalls and her sisters share many adventures while growing up on the American frontier.

Laura tries to get even with Nellie, the meanest girl in school.

During a trip to visit both sets of grandparents in Mississippi, brothers Eli, Cooper, and Peyton, and their father, former NFL star Archie Manning, take advantage of every opportunity to play football, practice plays, or play sports trivia games.

Concerned that the increasing influence of Americans will make her island's traditional ways disappear, seven-year-old Princess Lydia Liliuokalani commits traditional stories of the Hawaiian people to paper and presents them to King Kamehameha on Restoration Day in 1846.