In 1934, twelve-year-old Kai leaves China to join his father in America, but first he must take a long sea voyage, then endure weeks of crowded conditions and harsh examinations on Angel Island, fearing that he or his new friend will be sent home.
In 1930 in New York City, as she worries about the Depression's effect on her family, eleven-year-old Julie takes a personal interest in the building of the Empire State Building and befriends a Mohawk boy who is working on the project.
the story of Will Sasse, his horse Star, and the outlaw Jesse James
Schultz, Jan Neubert
2001
When his beloved mare is stolen by the James gang after an attempted bank robbery in the nearby town of Northfield, Will joins the posse looking for the outlaws.
Recounts the tale of Laura Secord's journey to tell the British about an American plot to conquer them during the war between Great Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century.
Matthew Gates joins the Forty-Niners in the search for fortune amid the California gold rush, but instead finds another type of treasure that some will stop at nothing to claim as their own.
Adam Benjamin Gates, along with his twin sister Eleanor, journeyed into the uncharted Louisiana Territory to search for a treasure which is suppose to be hidden in the wilderness.
In 1612, English brothers Samuel and William Gates seek to turn their family's bad fortune around in the Americas and, after receiving a cryptic message from a stranger during the voyage across the Atlantic, begin searching for a hidden treasure linked to the lost colony of Roanoke.
In 1888, a few months after barely surviving a deadly blizzard that has killed two of her brothers, fifteen-year-old Hannah goes to work at the home of a wealthy widow whose progressive social ideas scandalize the town of Prairie Hill, Nebraska.
