Misty of Chincoteague

By Marguerite Henry

Paul and his sister Maureen's determination to own a pony from the herd on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among the ponies rounded up for the...

Snorri and the Strangers

By Nathaniel Benchley

Norse settlers in the New World encounter hostile natives and finally decide to return to their home land.

George, the Drummer Boy

By Nathaniel Benchley

A view of the incidents at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, which were the start of the American Revolution, as seen from the eyes of George, a British drummer boy.

Wagon Wheels

By Barbara Brenner

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

Wagon Wheels

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Fireflies

By Joanne Ryder

Describes the physical characteristics of a firefly from the time it is a glowworm until adulthood.

Abigail Takes the Wheel

By Avi, Don Bolognese

Letters to Horseface

By Don Bolognese, F. N. Monjo, Elaine Raphael

Jimmy takes vanishing lessons.

By Walter R. Brooks

When he teaches Jimmy to disappear, an unwanted ghost doesn't realize he is losing his defense against humans.

Headed for trouble.

By Barbara Rinkoff

Deserted by his alcoholic father, a thirteen-year-old boy refuses to adjust to the welfare home to which he is sent.