MY NAME IS MARY, and I am setting down all these things about our people here in this new world, hoping some day to send to my dear friend, Hannah, who lives in Scrooby, England, what may really come to be a story, even though the writer of it is only sixteen years old, having lived in Plymouth since the day our company landed from the Mayflower in 1620, more than eleven years ago. So begins the compelling and historically-accurate Mary of Plymouth, the tale of sixteen-year-old Mary, who sailed with over a hundred Pilgrims on the Mayflower to establish a colony in America.

James Otis has written a delightful story of circus life for grades 4 to 7. Children will delight in this fantasy about running away with a circus. Toby Tyler runs away from home with the lemonade man to join the circus, and then works very hard to run away from the circus and go home again. In between, he makes many good friends, including the Living Skeleton and Mr. Stubbs, the monkey.

Twelve-year old Stephen and his family travel from England with other Quakers in 1681 to help build Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. In the new land Stephen learns the trials and adventures of life on the frontier, including encounters with Indians.

James Otis has written a delightful story of circus life for grades 4 to 7. Children will delight in this fantasy about running away with a circus. Toby Tyler runs away from home with the lemonade man to join the circus, and then works very hard to run away from the circus and go home again. In between, he makes many good friends, including the Living Skeleton and Mr. Stubbs, the monkey.

WITH THE REGULATORS by James Otis, is an historical novel in the truest sense of the term. It is set in the Carolinas, in the year 1768 and describes in detail the efforts of patriotic Americans to gain freedom from the harsh rule of Great Britain, eight years before the first blood was shed at Lexington. All the characters and events in this story come right out of the pages of history, except for the two young men around whom events unfold. Governor William Tryon was as grasping and malicious as portrayed. Leaders of the group known as The Regulation were as concerned about the wrongs...