After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves

When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm

Product Description: There's always something happening at Crawdad Creek. That's what Lizzie and Michael call the stream that runs behind their house. Come pan for gold, hunt for fossils, find and arrowhead in the mud or a crayfish under a stone. Watch whirligig beetles and water striders skate across the water, teasing the fish below, and count the turtles sunning themselves on moss-covered logs...read more

Recounts the author's four-year-old experience of a surge of power and wonder in the arms of his father during a thunderstorm and his subsequent efforts to re-experience the same feeling, an endeavor marked by such elements as his attraction to specific biblical cadences, his opposition to the Vietnam War, and his decision to leave school.

Product Description: The time is 1813, during America’s last war with England; the place is the Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village greens. Each log cabin is a fortress, and no one travels without a knife and gun...read more

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After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life and over the years they are joined by so many blacks that they start their own town.

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After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves

Suggests reasons to face the future with confidence, despite the environmental problems that face the world

The author recounts how he became a writer, and describes how incidents in his life have affected his beliefs and his work. (view table of contents)

Set in 1815, a historical novel captures the journey of one family as they set sail down the dangerous Ohio River in the hopes of beginning a new life in the future home downstream. Reprint. H. SLJ.

Writing from the Center is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. The center he seeks and describes is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual - and it is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal. Where and how do we find meaning? Where does a writer find inspiration? How can personal, artistic, family, and community needs be blended to create a harmonious life? What aids exist in such a located life against despair? How should a writer relate to and represent his place? Twelve interrelated essays probe these questions from different perspectives. Buckeye examines the resonance of objects and the mysteries of relationships and death. Imagining the Midwest surveys how other writers have seen and related to their region. The Common Life makes an eloquent case for community values. Sanctuary is an eloquent and painful consideration of environmental degradation. Writing from the Center and Letter to a Reader deal with Sanders's decisions to locate in the Midwest, to know his place, and to write about it in both fiction and nonfiction.

During a long walk through the forest with his father, a young boy discovers the wonders of nature as he learns about different kinds of trees and their special characteristics, in a guide that includes detailed descriptions to help young readers identify various tree species.

Product Description: This imaginative excursion into the future—where humanity has abandoned the outdoors for a network of cities sealed against all of nature—shows us the perils of separating ourselves from the environment.

Drawing on his own experiences, the author presents essays discussing the necessity of making a commitment to one place in a society that values rootlessness

Children on the nineteenth-century American frontier wait expectantly for the arrival of the singing, story-telling Merchant Meeks, bringing with him not only a bulging sack of spices, cloth, pots, and pans, but news of the world.

Essays deal with the terror of munitions, country life, owls, clouds, mountains, rocks, tools, men and women, violence, and jury duty

Essays examine relationships within families, communities, and regions, and reflect on the mystery of the universe (view table of contents)

A tribute to the limestone quarries of southern Indiana and the men who worked in them includes an examination of the geological past of the region