Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Historical - United States - General

It’s April of 1917, and World War I has reached Elizabeth’s family on their wheat farm in North Dakota. Although the battles are being fought overseas, the war has affected her in ways she couldn’t have imagined. Elizabeth is thrust into a new role after her brother and father leave the farm to do their part in the war. And she’s only eleven years old!

Having almost died as a toddler, Elizabeth has been babied most of her life. Now she must learn to help out around the farm; cooking, cleaning, and tending to the garden and livestock. No longer can she run...

To paradise they sailed-

There once was a world where hula dancers were experts at spear fighting, where a blind warrior taught his students healing arts...

where adventure ruled-

...as well as savage fighting. And where young people could build and sail a canoe on voyages to unknown lands.

where danger waited...

That world was Hawai'i.

The illegitimate child of Maui's King, Kolea, is spirited away to Molokai and raised in seclusion by a mysterious Hula Dancer and a blind warrior. Trained as a warrior, he is pursued by his...

"Baby Amos, I promise you that I will do my best . . ."
All Righty wants is to become a midwife to keep others
from feeling the pain of losing a baby. But without a school on
Henning's Island, how will she be able to keep her promise to her
stillborn baby brother?
"You ain't never goin' to be no hero "
Jimma's Old Man knows just what to say to beat him down.
Will he ever amount to anything?
In the year 1912, life in a lobster fishing village on an isolated
island off of the coast of Maine was hard. Here was no proper school,
...

From the beaches at Kitty Hawk, Keegan Crawford tinkers inside his rundown scooter shop. A teenager who barely finished high school, Keegan runs the business and looks after his ailing father.

While Keegan laments his all-around bad luck, he resents his sister Katharine, who left the family during its hardest time to attend college in Ohio.

Keegan's only hobby, and only friend, is his invention-an incredible flying scooter. As business slows and the Crawfords struggle to make ends meet, Keegan labors frantically in the back of the shop, desperate to finish his creation and make...

Everyone is gone--everyone except young James and Sarah Dyer and their faithful companion, Duke. It's the spring of 1758, and the Dyer children find themselves alone in their settlement on the Virginia frontier. Fort Seybert has been destroyed by Indians, and their mother and the other settlers are missing, feared captured. Now James, Sarah, and Duke are the only ones who can help. They must follow the forbidden Seneca Trail, but many mountains tower before them. Is Mother out there somewhere--hidden in the mountains? Will they be able to find her? James and Sarah know they must try...