Abigail is shocked to discover that her parents are conductors on the Underground Railroad, but she quickly rises to the occasion when it falls to her to see a fifteen-year-old runaway slave to safety in a neighboring town.
Kaya is determined to find her lost sister, Speaking Rain, and hopes that when thousands of Indian families come together during the summertime, someone may have information about Speaking Rain's whereabouts.
When Laura returns to her home in New York after living with her aunt and uncle in Virginia for four years, she discovers that her father and brother are helping runaway slaves escape to Canada.
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.
When an injury prevents his father from going into northern Canada with fur traders, thirteen-year-old Pierre decides to take his father's place as a voyageur.
Angus, a little dog with big dreams, wants to do what no dog has done before and fly, but first he must convince his owners, Orville and Wilbur Wright, to build a flying machine for him.
An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young girl who becomes a governess to the child of Edward Rochester, the master of Thornfield Manor, and the heartache surrounding her love for him.
