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Fairy Dust

by Smith, Jane Bandy

Nine-year-old Ruthie is introduced to a magical fairy world when her father hires a new babysitter, Alice.

Maria's Story

1773

by Nixon, Joan Lowery

In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish...

A Tiger Cub Grows Up (Baby Animals)

by Hewett, Joan & Hewett, Richard

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Our Strange New Land

Elizabeth's Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609

by Hermes, Patricia

Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her f...

The Secret Journey

by Kehret, Peg

In 1834 when a storm at sea destroys the slave ship on which she is a stowaway, twelve-year-old Emma musters all her resourcefulness to survive in the African ...

Be Blest

A Celebration of Seasons

by Owens, Mary Frances

Presents prayers for each of the months of the year, including search-and-find paintings of plants, animals, and insects.

Sky Memories

by Brisson, Pat & Minor, Wendell

When ten-year-old Emily learns that her mother has cancer, the two of them begin a ritual that will help Emily remember her mother after she is dead.

Leaving Emma

by Brokaw, Nancy Steele

Fifth-grader Emma faces many unpleasant changes as her best friend prepares to move away, her father goes to Turkey for five months, and her mother starts coll...

Coast to Coast with Alice

by Hyatt, Patricia Rusch

Sixteen-year-old Hermine Jahns relates her experiences traveling on the first cross-country automobile trip with a woman driver in 1909.

A Beekeeper's Year

by Johnson, Sylvia A. & Von Ohlen, Nick

Follows a beekeeper through the four seasons, showing how bees and humans work together to make honey.