Chronicles the history of Spanish influence in Texas, focusing on Spanish missions. Features illustrations, photographs, a glossary, a timeline, and an index.
A plot-your-own story based on the real history of German immigrants to the United States. Presents three story paths featuring a German who settled in Texas in 1845, a German family that settled in the Dakota Territory in 1887, and a young German looking for new opportunities in Wisconsin in 1914.
Alejandro grows from ten years old to the age of seventeen, learning about life from his extended Mexican American family on a small ranch in 1940s South Texas.
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
After moving from Chicago to Dallas in the spring of her sophomore year, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that joining the softball team at her private school not only helps her make friends, it also provides unexpected opportunities to learn and grow.
When her mother leaves her family suddenly to take a new job, fourteen-year-old Phoebe tries to deal with her own confused feelings and, in the process, learns some things about love and the complicated ties that bind families together.
While growing up in Clover, Texas, and living in a community debating school integration, fifteen-year-old Frankilee Baxter deals with the family tensions made by Angel Musseldorf, an abused teen rescued by the girl's mother.
Describes the tumultuous times in early Texas history that formed the character of Jim Bowie, who is known both for inventing the Bowie knife and for fighting and dying at the Alamo.
