Books like Lone Journey the Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton

A story about friendship, bullying, and the importance of acceptance in a small town school setting.

Children learn about Egypt by creating a game.

A tiny mouse dentist, Dr. De Soto, treats the toothaches of all animals—except the hungry fox—until a pain‑ridden fox seeks his help, turning his practice into a lesson in compassion and courage.

David McCullough’s *1776* chronicles the human drama surrounding the American Revolution’s pivotal year, tracing ordinary soldiers, notable leaders, and British forces as they shape the fate of the fledgling nation.

A richly detailed biography that traces John Adams’s rise from Revolutionary patriot to the United States’ second President, highlighting his political convictions, marriage to Abigail Adams, and lasting impact on American governance.

Clara vanishes at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping leads the trio from London to a trap set by a witch.

A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion will mean the death of her grandmother.

Rufus Moffat, a seven-year-old boy living with his widowed mother, experiences strange adventures while trying to learn ventroliquism.

Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy, must overcome his cultural differences and learn to be a man.

A young girl from a poor island community finds friendship and a new home in a wealthy Maine town in 1911.

Turgen, a shepherd in northeastern Siberia, defends the wild mountain rams and befriends a widow and her children.

Chucaro is a Newbery Honor juvenile fiction novel by Francis Kalnay that centers on the world of wild ponies.

Three American children transported to Wales for the holidays find an ancient harp key that takes them back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.

Hugh, a young man left in the care of Glastonbury Abbey, teams up with a novice monk to uncover the secrets of Avalon and the Holy Grail, while navigating friendship, faith and hidden adventures.

Raphael explains the central purpose of his "people's history" thusly: "By uncovering the stories of farmers, artisans, and laborers, we discern how plain folk helped create a revolution strong enough to evict the British Empire from the thirteen colonies. And by digging deeper still, we learn how people with no political standing -- women, Native Americans, African Americans -- altered the shape of a war conceived by others." After carefully reconstructing the histories of all these groups, he concludes: "The story of our nation's founding, told so often from the perspective of the 'founding fathers,' will never ring true unless it can take some account of the Massachusetts farmers who closed the courts, the poor men and boys who fought the battles, the women who followed the troops, the loyalists who viewed themselves as rebels, the pacifists who refused to sign oaths of allegiance, the Native Americans who struggled for their own independence, the southern slaves who fled to the British, the northern slaves who negotiated their freedom by joining the Continental Army". Raphael's account rings true: these people made the American Revolution. - Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh.

A young woman's journey of self-discovery and escape from the harsh realities of war-torn America in the 1940s, focusing on the themes of prejudice and the challenges faced by Japanese Americans during the World War II relocation program.

This book has developed from a study that was first undertaken a number of years ago, when Howard Mumford Jones, then editor-in-chief of the John Harvard Library, invited me to prepare a collection of pamphlets of the American Revolution for publication in that series. The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred. In the end I concluded that no fewer than seventy-two of them ought to be re-published. But sheer numbers were not the most important measure of the magnitude of the project. The pamphlets include all sorts of writings -- treatises on political theory, essays on history, political arguments, sermons, correspondence, poems -- and they display all sorts of literary devices. But for all their variety they have in common one distinctive characteristic: they are, to an unusual degree, explanatory. They reveal not merely positions taken but the reasons why positions were taken; they review motive and understanding: the assumptions, beliefs, and ideas -- the articulated worldview -- that lay behind the manifest events of the time. As a result I found myself, as I read through these many documents, studying not simply a particular medium of publication but, through these documents, nothing less than the ideological origins of the American Revolution. - Foreword.

Ned Wallis, a curious boy, sneaks a gun into his attic and takes a shot at a shadow. When he returns, he discovers a wild cat with one eye missing.

An imaginative child navigates family dynamics and moves to a new town.

Cedric, the Forester is a Newbery Honor–winning junior adventure novel set in a historical forest setting, following young Cedric as he navigates the challenges of managing woodland life.