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"The little regiment" and other Civil War stories

1997
Contains a collection of seven short stories about the American Civil War including "The Little Regiment," "An Episode of War," and "The Veteran" which features Henry Fleming, the protagonist from "The Red Badge of Courage.".

Journey to the New World (A)

diary of Remember Patience Whipple
1996
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.

Daffy Duck for president

1997
While lobbying for a year-long open season on rabbits, Daffy Duck discovers how the constitutional system of checks and balances protects democracy in the United States.

Coconut mon

1995
The coconut man sells his ten coconuts one by one.

The secret of Van Rink's cellar

1979
While searching for the ghost that haunts the house in which their mother is a maid and dressmaker for an English officer's wife, Sarah and Stephen become secretly involved in the Revolutionary War effort.

The ghost of Lost Island

1991
While helping his grandfather herd and shear his flock of sheep on a small island off the coast of Maine, twelveyear-old Gabe encounters a mysterious woman who may be the ghost of a drowned milkmaid.

A dream of queens and castles

1990
In England with her mother for a year, dreamy Diana meets an eccentric old man and shares his frustrations and use of the royal family as a means of escape.

My brother Sam is dead

1974
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

On the day Peter Stuyvesant sailed into town

1971
Finding the appearance of New Amsterdam a total disgrace, Peter Stuyvesant begins issuing no-nonsense proclamations to rectify the situation.

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