When an eleven-year-old slave is sent along to care for his Confederate soldier-master, he experiences more than he expects. As his master keeps track of his days in a diary to be sent home, the slave responds to each entry as the world is seen through the eyes of slavery.

While remodeling a house into a bed and breakfast inn, brother and sister combo Jake and Kellie find more than they bargain for as they discover secret passages and a tunnel used by the Underground Railroad to aid escaping slaves. When Kellie stumbles on a diary kept by the original owner's daughter, she reads hints of a valuable treasure hidden somewhere in the house. Can they really find the treasure? And who is the mysterious stranger who keeps trying to delay their work with his nighttime break-ins? This book is the first of three in a series involving Jake and Kellie.

Orphaned and alone, Jonathan joins his uncle, Jared Reed in German-occupied Austria during World War II. As a war correspondent, Jared has many contacts, including some that prove to be dangerous. When Jared is severely beaten during questioning by the Nazis, Jonathan becomes the only person available to take on an assignment from the Austrian Underground. Can the young American boy, unfamiliar with the language, and also the terrain of the mountains, manage to distract the soldiers who man the outposts long enough to smuggle refugees past and allow them to make contact with the freedom...

Friends Jill and Libby attempt to complete a high school history project at an old graveyard surrounding an unused country church. After discovering a series of clues to a treasure, an unknown assailant frightens the girls and causes their parents to put an end to their treasure hunt. Can the two friends find the treasure as well as obey their parents, or does their mystery assailant have a say in their plans?

Brother and sister team Jake and Kellie once again try their hand at remodeling, this time in South Carolina at a beautiful, but run-down plantation house. Kellie can't resist the temptation to do a little background research on the plantation and discovers that it has had a very jaded past. She finds hints that there is more to the house than the community would suspect. The more that Kellie learns about the mansion, the more dangers she and Jake encounter. Can she unravel the mystery surrounding the plantation before they receive any more threats or damage from their unknown assailant?

When the misused indentured servant, teenager Darius Jamison, finds a runaway slave boy hiding under the corncrib one day as he goes about his chores, he gives him aid, then decides in a moment of bravery to run away with the young boy toward the north. After a close scrape with a mountain lion, the injury he receives results in serious physical problems for Darius. He is wracked by fever and knows the pair must seek adult help. They are befriended by a farmer and his wife, who want to help the boys. But can they keep the inquisitive sheriff from finding out just who their "nephew" really is,...

After a disaster along the Ohio River robs him of his father's life and company, twelve-year-old Joel Libben decides to continue westward toward the plot of land his father had bought and which was to have become their new home. On his journey, he finds that his determination and courage are severely tested. Can he survive in the wilderness alone? Can he make a home in the savage land that others have deserted, or will he, too, have to abandon his plans? And why do so many strange objects, many of which he desperately needs, appear on his doorstep overnight? Who can be leaving such valuable...