A child's two grandfathers relate their boyhood experiences of the 'terrible blizzard of 1888,' during which each was stuck for three days doing what he disliked the most.

In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts.

While trying to have a nice vacation at their hunting lodge at Yokum Pond, Frank's mother begins her campaign for suffrage to the dismay of her family members and neighbors, but when Tennessee ratifies the amendment and history is forever change, Frank is proud for all his mother's hard work and dedication to a cause in which she so sincerely believed.

Even though everyone kept telling him that his fascination with rocks was pointless, a boy decides to follow his dreams and continues to collect, label, trade, and display his amazing rock collection until, years later, he is hired by a science museum due to his knowledge and passion, in an inspirational true account of the author's father. An ALA Notable Book. Reprint.

When John Newcomen is murdered in the small colony of Plymouth, the governor points the finger at an unpopular outsider that leads to the governor's son looking into the matter and defiantly taking sides with the accused.

Kate and her brother Jesse are not happy when they have to move from Brooklyn to an old house in Massachusetts after the death of their father, but their newly adopted sister from Korea quickly makes friends with a 'blue lady' who helps the family find away to stay where they belong.Kate and her brother are not happy when they have to move to a house in Massachusetts, but their newly adopted sister quickly makes friends with a 'blue lady' who helps the family find a way to stay where they belong.

After her beloved father leaves their Massachusetts farm in search of gold in California, Sarah is forced to endure her mother's coldness and harsh discipline, but as she works hard to keep the farm running, meeting each challenge with exceptional bravery, she comes to appreciate her mother's strength and patience, and realizes the true cost of her father's recklessness.

Etta, a twelve-year-old orphan in nineteenth-century Connecticut, meets a boy living in an abandoned cabin on the New Haven and Northampton Canal and has adventures with him while trying to be reunited with her siblings. (view table of contents)

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