Where will this shoe take you?

By Laurie Lawlor

A history of fashion in footwear through the ages.

Shadow Catcher

By Laurie Lawlor

George on his own

By Laurie Lawlor

Addie's twelve-year-old brother, George, doesn't think anyone appreciates his musical talent, and when his father threatens to sell his trombone, George decides to run away from the family's prairi...

Addie across the prairie

By Laurie Lawlor

Unhappy to leave her home and friends, Addie reluctantly accompanies her family to the Dakota Territory and slowly begins to adjust to life on the prairie.

Addie s Dakota winter

By Laurie Lawlor

In her new pioneer home of Dakota, ten-year-old Addie finds an unlikely friend and, stranded alone during a blizzard, learns about courage. Addie is disappointed when her only possibility for a fr...

How to survive third grade

By Laurie Lawlor

Ernest, an unpopular third grader, has a difficult adjustment to make until he finds a friend and experiences his first real successes in life.

The real Johnny Appleseed

By Laurie Lawlor

Jamestown s American Portraits

By Laurie Lawlor

In 1863, fifteen-year-old Private Allen of South Carolina, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, decides to switch his allegiance to the Union and is sent to fight "savages" in Dakota Territory, wh...

American Portraits

By McGraw Hill

Daniel Boone

By Laurie Lawlor

Traces the life of the colonial pioneer, hunter, and woodsman, from his youth in the Pennsylvania wilderness to his adventures exploring the frontier, especially the "dark and bloody" land called K...