On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Mary Campbell gets angry with her mother and storms out of the cabin -- never to return. As she picks wild strawberries and plans her apology, Mary is captured by Delaware Indians and plunged into a life that i...
Set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century America, the thrilling sequel to
In 1782, 13-year-old Betsy Zane’s bored with trying to act like a lady and being cooped up with her great-aunt. Her heart and soul yearn for the freedom of living with her brothers at the family homestead along the Ohio River.
When her grea...
In 1783, when John Chapman was nine, his father planted some apple seeds around their one-room cabin. A few years later, the fruit of those apple trees was feeding the growing Chapman family. Young Johnny marveled how all that was needed for this mir...
Jennie Hodgers dressed as a boy for the first time in order to help support her impoverished Irish family with a shepherd’s wages. Then her arrival in America confirmed her belief that the world offers better opportunities to young men than to youn...
As the Civil War looms, a teenager finds refuge from her abusive father in a Shaker community in this “lovely and thought-provoking” novel (Kirkus Reviews). Rosemary Elizabeth likes Pleasant Hill. Unlike her former home, the Kentucky Shake...
Hopes are as high as the marijuana crops growing in the barn. The farm is thriving, but nothing stays good forever. Buried secrets seep from the ground as the Nesbitt sisters and the town of Cookham, South Carolina search for answers. Ruby, the young...