Product Description: Book by Beatty, Patricia

When a new girl arrives at Fort Yuma, Arizona, in 1881, thirteen-year-old Dorcas finds herself involved in the escape of an outlaw from the prison across the river.

When, in 1895, their father's business failure forces the family to live in their beach home on the peninsula just above the Oregon border, twelve-year-old Marcella and her younger brother and sister find the experience much more rewarding than they imagined, especially when they become friends with the numerous members of the Kimball family.When, in 1895, their father's business failure forces the family to live in their beach home on the peninsula just above the Oregon border, twelve-year-old Marcella and her younger brother and sister find the experience much more rewarding than they imagined (view table of contents)

The women of a Montana mining town disrupt life when they try to raise money for a new school.

In this rollicking tale filled with colorful characters, a young girl attempts to place herself in a happy home in spite of the casual adoption practices in nineteenth-century Texas

Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate in Indiana along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.

With his father and brother serving in the Confederate Army and the rest of his family murdered in a Comanche raid of their west Texas farm, 13-year-old Lewallen seeks to free himself and his younger sister from their Indian captivity.

When the British troops return to his South Carolina hills and his neighbors indulge in righteous brutalities, fourteen-year-old Alexander MacLeod begins his eight-month transformation from staunch Loyalist to unwavering Patriot

When a runaway slave seeks refuge on her family's farm, Truth Hopkins, a Quaker who opposes slavery and the Civil War, accompanies him on a dramatic trip to freedom via the Underground Railroad.