Verla Kay

• Feb-1999
• / General Fiction
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In a brief rhyming story set during the gold rush, Jasper leaves his family and farm for California to pursue his dream of finding gold, but discovers that panning for gold is dirty, backbreaking work....

• Jul-1999
• / General Fiction
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Welcome aboard! Travel back in time to join the workers of the Union Pacific Railroad as they pounded west and those from the Central Pacific Railroad as they charged east to build the first transcontinental rail line in the United States. They were ...

• Sep-2000
• / Historical
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Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow Mother, Father, and Baby John as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains in the fertile Sacramento Valley of California. By the creators of Gold Fever. ...

• Sep-2001
• / Historical
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With dreams of a better life for themselves, Thomas, Edward, Mary Jane, and their parents say goodbye to the only home they have ever known. They leave crowded, dirty London behind for good when they board a ship that promises to take them across the...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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With the arrival of the white man, Broken Feather knows that things are changing in the world around him and so must maintain true to his heritage despite the troubling times ahead for he and his family....

• Apr-2003
• / General Fiction
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• May-2003
• / General Fiction
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After struggling to survive on the streets, orphans Lucy, Harold, and David find it fortunate to be cared for by the local orphanage, but when they head out on the orphan train, they come to realize that different farming families will make specific ...

• May-2010
• / Historical
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When the Pony Express came along, it cut the time it took to send a letter across the country in half. But only a year and a half later, with the arrival of transcontinental telegraph lines, it was put right out of business. Along with a family's ...

• Jul-2011
• / Historical
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Life in an eighteenth-century one-room schoolhouse might be different from today--but like any other pair of siblings, brothers Peter and John Paul get up to plenty of mischief! Readers follow the two as they work with birch-bark paper and hornbooks,...

• May-2012
• / Historical
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Powerful history through the eyes of a young boy When Johnny joins the Confederate Army as a drummer boy, he enters a world full of patriotism and adventure, breathtaking hot-air balloons, cannons and campfires. His job is to drum rhythms that tel...