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True Son had been captured at four years of age, and then made a part of the tribe that had captured him, but by the time all the captives were to be released True Son had come to hate the White Man and his ways.

Everyone knows Tempe Wick is a most surprising girl, but she exceeds even her own reputation when two mutinous Revolutionary soldiers try to steal her beloved horse.

In 1876, on the eve of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, twenty-year-old Vesper Holly and her friends clash yet again with the archfiend Dr.

Orphan Peter York, taken in by the taciturn Quaker Mr. Shinn in 1768, is confused by the mixed signals he receives from his guardian and decides he must take matters into his own hands when the community is roused to search for two young indentured servants who have escaped.

In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold on to memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.

Presents a novel set in a post-World War Two coal-mining town in Pennsylvania and tells the story of the five Novak children who come of age during wartime.

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

Fourteen-year-old Pat McFarlane, forced to go to work as a breaker boy in a Pennsylvania coal mine after the death of his father, wonders how his already poverty-stricken family will survive when the miners, spurred on by unionist John Mitchell, call a strike in 1902.

With the help of what he learned from a Delaware Indian boy and an accommodating mother raccoon, young Daniel Boone escapes danger when a bear steals his coonskin cap.

In 1841 in Pennsylvania, Pippin Biddle, determined to get his three orphaned sisters out of the poorhouse, tries to earn a living as an itinerant painter.

Presents a fictional account of four days in July, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg, discussing tactics, plans, and preparations for battle from both the Northern and Southern points of view.

April Wolff, a young Mennonite schoolteacher, returns home to find her family farm looted and her father dead, and sets out to enlist the help of Genreal Robert E.

While caring for her team of horses, fourteen-year-old Eliza Carter struggles with her twin brother's involvement with rebel farmers and an approaching war that might divide her family.