Product Description: From the time he was a young boy roaming the forests of the unsettled Midwest, Abraham Lincoln knew in his heart that slavery was deeply wrong.  A voracious reader, Lincoln spent every spare moment of his days filling his mind with knowledge, from history to literature to mathematics, preparing himself to one day lead the country he loved towards greater equality and prosperity...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, 14-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.

Product Description: Find adventure with Addy Walker in this three-book boxed set. Discover how a clever disguise helps in an escape to freedom, how Addy learns about true friendship, and what makes a Christmas shadow play unforgettable. Join a journey that leads to a double celebration on April 9th, and discover how Addy learns that hopes and dreams can live on in others...read more

In Philadelphia, Addy Walker and her mother build new lives, with Addy attending school for the first time

A brave young black girl who fled North with her mother during the Civil War has a feud with her rival, Harriet, until tragedy forces them to resolve their differences and become friends. Simultaneous.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. For more than 15 years, The American Girls Collection has captivated readers with its tales of heart, hope and history. Millions of girls have fallen in love with the series' strong, appealing heroines.

Product Description: All that glitters is not gold. The Little Wanderers attempt to go back to 1848 to the California Gold Rush! They plan to meet John Sutter and James Marshall, the fathers of the Gold Rush, but with their overexcitement the dial on Papa Lemon's Magical Train is set to the wrong year of 1851...read more

Product Description: While exploring The Treasure Chest, Felix and Maisie are transported to a Massachusetts farm in 1836. Disappointed that they have not landed in their beloved New York City, they wonder why they were brought to Massachusetts to meet a young girl named Clara Barton...read more

Chronicles the sometimes funny, sometimes sad experiences of eight-year-old Anna with her friends and family during a year in Baltimore just before World War I.

Chronicles the sometimes funny, sometimes sad experiences of eight-year-old Anna with her friends and family during a year in Baltimore just before World War I.

Product Description: Escaped slaves. Secret tunnels. Risky hiding places. Fifteen-year-old Hannah uncovers her family’s secret past when she stumbles across a long-lost diary in her grandmother’s attic. Discovering the story of her family’s courage during a dark period of our country’s history, stirs her heart and changes her life...read more

Product Description: Nine-year-old Aubrey has won the lead in a history play about her hometown of Butte des Morts, Wisconsin. Mystery and adventure follow as Aubrey digs for a costume in the attic of an old hotel called the Trading Post. Nearly 200 years earlier, escaped slaves were hidden in the hotel...read more

Twelve-year-old Clara Dooley has spent her whole life in the Glendoveer mansion, where her mother is a servant to the kind and elderly matron of the house. Clara has never known another home. In fact, she's confined to the grand estate due to a mysterious heart condition. But it's a comfortable life, and if it weren't for the creepy squawking birds in the aviary out back, a completely peaceful one too. But once old Mrs. Glendoveer passes away, Clara comes to learn many dark secrets about the family. The Glendoveers suffered a horrific tragedy: their children were kidnapped, then drowned. And their father George Glendoveer, a famous magician and illusionist, stood accused until his death. As Clara digs deeper and deeper into the terrifying events, the five birds in the aviary seem to be trying to tell her something. And Clara comes to wonder: what is their true identity? Clara sets out to solve a decades-old murder mystery—and in doing so, unlocks a secret in her own life, too. Kathleen O'Dell deftly weaves magic, secret identities, evil villians, unlikely heroes, and the wonder of friendship into a mystery adventure with all the charm of an old fashioned classic.

Product Description: Until now, Baxter only knew life as a classroom bird. It was a good life. It was a comfortable life. However, once Baxter was invited to join an adventure beyond the cage and beyond the classroom, it was hard for him to resist...read more

Product Description: Isiah Jenkins is an ordinary kid from Atlanta, Georgia. At least he thinks this is the case, until he learns from his granddad, that he is actually from a long line of mythical beings called Guardians. Guardians are marked at birth and tied to a book that is passed down to through the men in their family...read more

Product Description: A brother and sister bear the scars of a childhood in which they sought comfort and safety in each other, but played games of power and loss instead.