Twelve-year-old Jimmy Spoon yearns for a life of adventure. So when two Shoshoni boys offer him a horse, Jimmy sneaks away from his family in Salt Lake City to follow the boys. When Jimmy arrives at the Shoshoni camp, he discovers that he is expected...
“...let's see what these boys can do." Jimmy knew, from the moment he laid eyes on the ad, that he had to ride for the Pony Express: Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily, orphan...
My name is Abigail. This is my story... Eleven-year-old Abigail Jane Stewart's life with her family is upended when Abby and her sisters are awakened by the unfamiliar sound of drums. General George Washington is leading the Continental soldiers int...
Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Kristiana Gregory's ACROSS THE WIDE AND LONESOME PRAIRIE is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!After the death of her two sisters, thirteen-year-old Hattie and her family make for a fresh start...
May 5, 1869 Late this afternoon our tracklayers arrived at the Summit! The Union Pacific engine came to a stop with a loud release of steam. Facing it, on another sidetrack, was California's locomotive. Both engines greeted each other with a sharp w...
3 JANUARIUS, MORNING I could feel my insides shaking. Would this sister try to poison me? Yes, I believe so. As for my other older sister, Berenice -- never! She and I adore each other even though I am eight years younger. I took the cup and raised...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 Hope’s story begins... As tensions rise between the Tories and Patriots in 1776, Hope's life becomes more and more confusing. She wonders if she will ever see Papa again. Her brother Ethan has proclaimed that he...
Susanna Fairchild and her family journey to Oregon from New York to start a new life, but while on the boat, disaster strikes when Susanna's mother is lost at sea, and soon after, her father decides to join the groups of men on a quest to discover go...
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 Hope’s story continues... The Revolutionary War continues to rage in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania -- close to Hope's home in Philadelphia. Her papa and brother finally return, but when Hope discovers that Papa has ...
June 24th Such excitement... the horsemen announced travelers, and Count Geoffrey of Anjou arrived an hour later with some of his chevaliers. Petra and I peered from the stairs down to the great hall and saw the visitors. I decided we must put on ou...
*** NEW free study guide written by the author: www.kristianagregory.com ***It is the spring of 1865, and the end of the Civil War is near. As the nation is struggling to come to peace with itself, all Vanessa Clemens can think about is her birthday...
In Hope's third and final diary, by Kristiana Gregory, we meet Hope once again in the middle of the Revolutionary War, as she continues to bravely face the turmoil and violence.
Hope describes the realities of life in Pennsylvania as she is ca...
Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange a marriage between Sophia and Charles-Peter, a young German duke and nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. As Sophia's mother moves to make the m...
Cabin Creek is a small town with a lot of big secrets. Lost Island was off limits -- until now. Jeff and David are going to the deserted island to search for clues -- and hidden treasure. Town legend tells of a robber and a secret cave, but the b...
Action! Intrigue! Cliffhangers! With a riveting overarching series storyline and a mini-mystery in each title, Cabin Creek gives readers what they crave: immediate answers AND ongoing suspense. Every book reveals clues, adds layers, and finds the cha...
Cabin Creek is a small town with a lot of big secrets. When a girl's face appears, then disappears, outside a window of their spooky old schoolhouse, the cousins think they've seen a ghost. More strange clues -- piano music lilting through empty h...
Expands on the folk song to tell of seventeen-year-old Clementine, whose dream of being a doctor is complicated by her drunken, gambling father, the lawlessness of 1866 Idaho Territory, and the affections of handsome Boone Reno....
The cousins are worried there might be another thief in Cabin Creek. Things keep disappearing ... but then they show up again, repaired and freshly painted! Does the shadowy figure they've seen in the junkyard have the answer to this latest mystery?<...
My name is Abigail. My story continues... We join Abigail Stewart half a year after The Winter of Red Snow ended, in January of 1779. Her father has enlisted in the Continental Army, and when a devastating fire destroys Abby's home, she, her mothe...
Good news for readers! #1, #2 and #3 in the Cabin Creek Mystery series are now available with new illustrations by Cody Rutty; in paperback and Kindle. And here's another exciting adventure, #7: THE PHANTOM OF HIDDEN HORSE RANCH: During summer vacati...
It hasn't been easy for Nessa to find her place in Prairie River. She is having trouble making friends, and her position as the local teacher is on shaky ground. Nessa struggles to keep a positive outlook but when a threat endangers her and her stude...
It is the spring of 1865, and the end of the Civil War is near. As the nation is struggling to come to peace with itself, all Vanessa Clemens can think about is her birthday. She has been dreading it for weeks, for the day she turns fourteen she must...
Nessa is feeling at home in Prairie River until, one blustery night, Reverend McDuff arrives unexpectedly at the Locketts' door. At once Nessa's hopes of leaving her past behind are shattered. She had told only Ivy and Mrs. Lockett her secret -- HER ...
Originally titled, MY DARLIN' CLEMENTINE, this riveting historical novel won the 2010 Idaho choice for the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Library of Congress. Sixteen-year-old Clementine Kidd dreams of being a doctor. Bu...
Nessa's winter was fraught with trials, but now spring has come to Prairie River - and so has her dear friend Albert. Albert is Nessa's oldest friend from the orphanage, and she had prayed that he would join her in Kansas ever since she journeyed to ...
After their parents die in an epidemic in 1878, 12-year-old Danny and his six year-old brother Judd are sent to a miserable orphanage. But the boys decide to run away and journey to Bodie Camp, where their uncle is prospecting for gold. When Danny fi...
*** NEW free study guide written by the author: www.kristianagregory.com *** When 12-year-old Danny and six-year-old Judd lose their parents to pneumonia in 1878, they are sent to an orphanage in San Francisco. The headmaster wants to separate the br...
A new adventure for the Cabin Creek cousins! Jeff (13), David (11), and Claire (10) fly to Gray's Beach, California to spend the summer with their cousin Bronte Bella (13). Home of the GPO, Giant Pacific Octopus, they hope to see one up close. Their ...
A new adventure for the Cabin Creek cousins! Jeff (13), David (11), and Claire (10) are spending the summer with their cousin Bronte (13) in Gray's Beach, California. When they learn that a ghostly figure of a woman appears at the lighthouse during s...
In Cabin Creek, winter means sledding, ice skating, snow boarding -- and a broken ski lift? A blizzard has blown into town and tourists are filling up the lodge to hit the slopes, which means there are all the more suspects in the cousins' latest cas...
The cousins are excited for their first campout on Lost Island with their friends Vimila and Anupam [from #8: The Case of the Spying Drone]. When they hear distressing cries of an animal and from their Lookout Tower see what appears to be a baby ...
It's April 18, 1906, and a powerful earthquake has just rocked San Francisco. Photographer Edith Irvine and her assistant, Daisy Valentine, survive the tragedy. Armed with Edith's camera, the two women set out to document the devastation--even as bui...
Carrie Hill hates Indians. Indians killed her parents and ruined her life.
With nowhere else to go, fifteen-year-old Carrie signs on to help care for the family of Beaver Dick Leigh, an English trapper. To her dismay, Carrie discovers that Beave...
Action! Intrigue! Cliffhangers! With a riveting overarching series storyline and a mini-mystery in each title, Cabin Creek gives readers what they crave: immediate answers AND ongoing suspense. Every book reveals clues, adds layers, and finds the cha...