When Anna hears the eerie sounds beyond her gate, she journeys over the hilltop to find the Bagpiper, whose mysterious music changes her life forever, in an enchanting story about discovering dreams enhanced by luminous full-color paintings.

Hannah's parents think that she is too young to be involved in their resistance against their unfair landlord, until the sheriff's posse comes after her father and Hannah is able to sound the warning signal

In this excerpt from 'Moby Dick,' Melville portrays the majestic mountain eagle, who at his lowest, still flies above all other birds

I am where dead children go. Okiku is a lonely soul. She has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the spirits of the murdered-dead. Once a victim herself, she now takes the lives of killers with the vengeance they're due. But releasing innocent ghosts from their ethereal tethers does not bring Okiku peace. Still she drifts on.Such is her existence, until she meets Tark. Evil writhes beneath the moody teen's skin, trapped by a series of intricate tattoos. While his neighbors fear him, Okiku knows the boy is not a monster. Tark needs to be freed from the malevolence that clings to him. There's just one problem: if the demon dies, so does its host.

As Jack helps his uncle cut ice for the ice houses, he finds his strength and courage tested when his horse, Max, falls through the ice, in a tale complemented by full-color paintings that evoke winter in the Hudson River valley.

Running Deer and his fellow tribesmen take special care of their land until they lose it to invading white settlers, who wear it out and leave it to recover on its own.

Celebrates the seasons of the year through poems from the legends of Native Americans

Celebrates the seasons of the year through poems from the legends of Native Americans