Nine-year-old Josefina wants to give up learning to play the piano until she sees how much joy her music gives to her baby nephew. Discusses the importance of music on the New Mexican frontier and describes how to dance La Vaquerita.
Ida Early, who keeps house for the Sutton family in rural Georgia during the Depression, becomes the unwitting target of the children's matchmaking schemes during the holiday season.
Weary of the war, a Union lieutenant recalls his life with his twin brother on their family's Virginia plantation and the events that led them to fight on different sides in the Civil War.
the Underground Railroad diary of Julia May Jackson
Bradford, Karleen
2009
Presents the fictional journal of Julia May Jackson, beginning in Virginia in 1863 when she and her family decided to flee slavery for freedom in the North, and telling of her life in Canada.
Presents an illustrated retelling of the classic novel in which the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious masked prisoner in the Bastille, who is believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.
During the potato famine, young Mary Driscoll leaves her Ireland home for Lowell, Massachusetts, where deplorable working conditions and a false accusation of murder force her to rally more courage than she thought she had.
Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.
