Polikoff, Barbara Garland

Traces the childhood, education, employment, political career, and presidency of the statesman from Virginia.

Presents the life of Herbert Hoover, including his childhood, education, employment, and political career.

A coming-of-age story of a Jewish teenage girl living in 1890s Chicago, aspiring to become an artist, but dealing with family problems along the way.

When thirteen-year-old Luz and her family move from Chicago to her stepfather's native home of Puerto Rico, she and her brother Rome struggle to adjust and to decide where it is they really belong.

Horatio finds life a strange experience as he tries to cope with the death of his father, his mother's new boyfriend, and having to give up his room to his grandfather.

When an inheritance seems to make it possible for Angie to buy the beautiful Arabian she rides at Smitty's stables, she finds her father and a jealous girl standing in her way.

As Horatio tries to adjust to the death of his father from lung cancer, O.P., Horatio's grandfather, mourns the loss of his dog Mollie.

Eight young pet owners recount their experiences with and feelings for their pets.