When the mining town of Dawson City is engulfed in fire in 1898, Davey's search for his uncle becomes even more challenging in this fictional adventure set during the craze of the Klondike gold rush.

Moving away from his beloved home in Iowa to Oregon, Papa has a hard time saying good-bye to all his fruit trees and so, in addition to his large family, packs up a collection of peach, plum, and apple saplings to plant in his new garden upon his arrival.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Moving away from his beloved home in Iowa to Oregon, Papa has a hard time saying good-bye to all his fruit trees and so, in addition to his large family, packs up a collection of peach, plum, and apple saplings to plant in his new garden upon his arrival...read more

Having been freed from slavery, Ella joins one of the few schools for black children, but when the school is nearly forced to close due to lack of funds, Ella uses her beautiful voice and the power of spiritual slave songs to raise money and save her cherished institution.

The daughter of a slave forms a gospel singing group and goes on tour to raise money to save Fisk University.

Product Description: Published in time for the 150th anniversary of her birth, this story stars a young Beatrix Potter, creator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and many other classic children’s books.   Master of the historical fiction picture book, Hopkinson takes readers back to Victorian England and the home of budding young artist and animal lover Beatrix Potter...read more

Product Description: This story is based on the life of Billy Bayly, a real boy who lived in Pennsylvania during the Civil War and had an unlikely friendship with a Southern soldier.

During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, Billy Bayly and his mother shelter a young Confederate deserter on their Pennsylvania farm, in an easy-to-read story which includes an historical note on the incident. Reprint.

The diary of a ten-year-old girl who moves with her family in 1855 from a town on the Maine coast to rugged Turtle Island where her father is to be the lighthouse keeper.

Mags and Cody spend every summer with Gramps and Grandma at their farm, but after Grandma dies, the house is shadowed with sadness and the bluebirds are silent, so Mags decides to revitalize Grandma's garden, and soon the bluebirds return and Gramps begins to heal, in a heartwarming story of family, loss, and compassion.

While Papa is off fighting on the Missouri border, Charlie is left in charge of the family in their remote cabin in Bleeding Kansas, and must keep everyone safe when a prairie blizzard approaches.

Helpful support for students working through the ideas in Advanced Level Physics.

Product Description: Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson grew up in Massachusetts and after college moved to Hawaii where she worked as a college development administrator while nurturing her writing career. In this 9th book of the Author and YOU series, Hopkinson shares her curiosity and the manner in which that curiosity leads to investigation and research and then to her many fiction and nonfiction stories...read more

Fannie Farmer is a mother's helper in the Shaw house, where the daughter gives her the idea of writing down precise instructions for measuring and cooking, which eventually became one of the first modern cookbooks.

When her mother hires a kitchen assistant, Marcia is unhappy because she has always been the helper, but in time, she realizes that Fannie Farmer is very talented and that she could learn a great deal from her if she became receptive and paid close attention. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.

When her mother hires a kitchen assistant, Marcia is unhappy because she has always been the helper, but in time, she realizes that Fannie Farmer is very talented and that she could learn a great deal from her if she became receptive and paid close attention. 10,000 first printing.

When Union soldiers march by the farm and ask Johnny if he wants to join them, the young slave quickly leaves the only home he has ever known, takes a job working on the company's mule team, and risks his very life doing dangerous tasks in the hopes that it will lead to becoming a free man at the end of the Civil War. Reprint.

When her father takes her to Ohio to try out for a semipro baseball team, seventeen-year-old Alta Weiss is upset to hear that the coach won't even give her a try because she is a girl, but Alta doesn't give up and soon is on the mound throwing pitches that change the skeptical coach's mind. Reprint.

In the early 1900s, Alta Weiss, a young woman who knows from an early age that she loves baseball, finds a way to show that she can play, even though she is a girl.

“A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred   Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He’s being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. And he’s got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a week to keep safe. But even for Eel, things aren’t so bad until that fateful August day in 1854—the day the deadly cholera (“blue death”) comes to Broad Street.   Everyone believes that cholera is spread through poisonous air. But one man, Dr. John Snow, has a different theory. As the epidemic surges, it’s up to Eel and his best friend, Florrie, to gather evidence to prove Dr. Snow’s theory—before the entire neighborhood is wiped out.   “Hopkinson illuminates a pivotal chapter in the history of public health. . . . Accessible . . . and entertaining.” —School Library Journal, Starred   “For [readers] who love suspense, drama, and mystery.” —TIME for KidsFrom the Hardcover edition.

Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.