After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

The life and career of Charles Stratton from the moment when P. T. Barnum discovered him in his Bridgeport home at five years old. Tom Thumb was a midget, but not a dwarf. His career, from 1842 to 1883, is a success story.

A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock.

A historical survey of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas during the lifetime of Abraham Lincoln, examining people, places, and events which gave color to the world of the nineteenth century.

A fictionized biography of the man who left England to fight for freedom of speech and liberty of worship in colonial America. He founded a settlement in what is now Rhode Island and helped to create a truly democratic government.

A giant five-thousand-year-old Sequoia, called Wa-No-Na by the Indians, tells its life story.

A young boy in postwar Paris is unsure of what to do with a box of pancake flour he receives as a gift.

Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa.

The two eldest children of a pioneer family are determined to carry their love of beauty and learning to their new home in the Kentucky Wilderness.