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Explores the city recognized as the nation's busiest inland river port, describing its history, neighborhoods, and points of interest.

Tumpie, a young African American girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker, longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious street life of St.

Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family.

Discusses the construction, history, and current status of the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri, which is both a bridge across the Mississippi River and a memorial to the city's role in pioneer days.

As the family gathers at her grandmother's bed-and-breakfast for a murder mystery weekend, seventeen-year-old Jen confronts her ambivalent feelings about her mother, who disappeared fourteen years earlier, and about the possibility that she might be dead.

Chronicles the history, design, and building of the Gateway Arch in St.

Identical twins Kate and Violet have always been different--able to sense other people's secrets and know about future events.

The portrait of an extended African-American family in which the thirteen-year-old daughter strives to be grown-up while facing prejudice and school busing pressures outside of the family.

Explores the American wilderness before the journey of Lewis and Clark during the land's ownership by the French.

Julie Winch examines race relations within the Clamorgans family in Saint Lousis, Missouri.

"Eleven-year-old Eliza Scott isn't a slave, but she's not free, either.

In 1847 St. Louis, Missouri, when a new law against educating African Americans forces Reverend John to close his school, he finds an ingenious solution to the new state law by moving his school to a steamboat in the Mississippi River.

When Lea brings her friend Camila with her on a trip to St. Louis, Lea becomes more focused on figuring out who the mysterious woman in an old photo is than in being a good host to her friend.

All his life Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea and a French fur-trapper, has lived in two worlds: the Westernized world of his godfather, William Clark, and the frontier world beyond St.

When a beloved Dalmation goes missing while cousins Mike and Kate are in St.