A reference book containing lists of information about world history, United States history, social studies, geography, climate, math, science, l

The second Christmas after their mother has died, Josefina and her three sisters find that participating in the traditions of Las Posadas helps k

Horrified at having witnessed her father's murder and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen Elizabeth I, eleven-year-old Alice Tuckfield h

During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and ex

In the Netherlands in 1855, May, a young member of a circus family who is not permitted to perform because of a twisted foot, bonds with a local

Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.

Historical photographs with explanatory text present a picture of life in the American West from 1840 to the early 1900s.

Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with fiv

In 1962 Ottawa, eleven-year-old Rex Norton-Norton faces several confusing mysteries, including his father's troubling secrets from World War II,

Presents a picture of life in colonial America and reviews the causes and major events of the American Revolution.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as

Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which