Patricia Beatty
3) Jayhawker
Author
Language
English
Description
In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
7) Bonanza girl
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1993, c1962
Language
English
Description
A widow and her two children head for gold rush territory in Idaho, hoping to find jobs and a new life.
Author
Publisher
Wm. Morrow
Pub. Date
1994, 1989
Language
English
Description
When, in 1895, their father's business failure forces the family to live in their beach home on the peninsula just above the Oregon border, twelve-year-old Marcella and her younger brother and sister find the experience much more rewarding than they imagined, especially when they become friends with the numerous members of the Kimball family.