During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots.

In 1937 rural Kentucky, Cora Mae starts a school newspaper to rally support for the Rural Electrification Act, but the town's resistance to change is not easy to overcome.

A young wild stallion named Sky lives with his band of mustangs in the highlands. When water becomes scarce, Sky--determined to put family first--sets out on his own. Thirsty and lonely, Sky misses his band, especially his best friend, Storm. But Sky lives to run, and his journey is full of wonder, discovery, and new friendships. When Sky is captured by the Pony Express, forced to wear a saddle, and made to run the treacherous trail over the mountains,...

Scholastica has grown up helping her father make candles in his shop. There are ups and downs--while constantly smelling like tallow makes it hard for Tick to keep friends, stray cats love her. Still, she delights in the work and the fact that she can help Papa. Because she's a girl, Tick can never be a true apprentice in the trade, but since she gets to do the job anyway, what does it matter what she's called? Every summer, Tick and her father use...

"Junko is bad at athletics. Really bad. Other students laugh because they think she is small and weak. Then her teacher takes the class on a trip to a mountain. It's bigger than any Junko's ever seen, but she is determined to make it to the top. Ganbatte, her teacher tells her. Do your best. After that first trip, Junko becomes a mountaineer in body and spirit. She climbs snowy mountains, rocky mountains, and even faraway mountains outside of her...

"Sarah is the first in her family to be born free in Delta, Louisiana. But being free doesn't mean that Sarah doesn't have to work. She cooks, she cleans, she picks cotton, she does laundry, and she babysits. And when she works, she wraps up her hair. One day, Sarah's hair starts to fall out! It's itchy, crunchy, patchy, and won't grow. Instead of giving up, Sarah searches for the right products. And then she invents something better than any shampoo...

Jake, Amber, and Wes encounter new dangers and find their friendship tested as they follow the clues Jake’s grandfather hid away in the old scrapbook. The stakes are higher, and the history goes deeper as the three kids put their heads together to solve a puzzle that is perhaps hundreds of years in the making.

Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.

"A young boy, his great-uncle, and a friendly gorilla from the London Zoo uncover a Nazi plot in wartime Britain"--

"In Rescue on the River, the third book in a three-part story arc focusing on the US Civil War era, cousins Patrick and Beth attend Abraham Lincoln's inauguration and discover that their friend's brother Kitch is a slave in South Carolina. The cousins search for Kitch as they travel down the Combahee River with Harriet Tubman. They help with the secret mission of the Second South Carolina Volunteers, an African American unit. Will they be able to...