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Orphaned at age six and taken in by a heartless couple, nine-year-old Katie Rose spends her days doing chores and dreaming of going west to find her Uncle Jack. Then Mr. Stevens brings home an unbroken Mustang, and Katie's world changes. Katie is drawn to the horse's wildness, and he seems to sense her need for companionship. So when Katie learns that the Stevenses plan to join the expansion West, without her or the Mustang, she makes a desperate...

Joined by Hiram the farmhand, Katie begins the journey west. At first, she is unsure if the Mustang will follow, but much to her relief, he seems to trust her. Soon, Katie and Hiram meet up with a large family who invite them to join their caravan. For the first time, it seems as though they might really make it to Oregon. But then tragedy strikes, and Katie finds herself having to choose between parting ways with Hiram, or abandoning her dreams of...

Captured by members of another Irish clan, Lara continues to protect the young filly, Dannsair, and ponders how they might escape together.

When her horse is given to a baron in the castle town of Athenry, nine-year-old Lara goes along.

In 1894, Daniel and Carrie fight to survive as an uncontrollable forest fire threatens to destroy their small Minnesota mill town.

Katie continues the journey west to Oregon hoping to be reunited with her uncle and returning the Mustang closer to his homeland.

The women's suffrage movement is coming close to victory in 1913, and when thirteen-year-old Francesca meets a prominent suffragist at one of her mother's charity luncheons, she finds the courage to admit her secret dream of becoming a reporter.

When her wounded brother returns from battle, twelve-year-old Mary must get help for him without telling her father, a wealthy Tory, who has disowned his son for joining General Washington's Continental Army.

The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.

During almost four years at sea with her whaling captain father, thirteen-year-old Rebecca finds life both boring and difficult--especially when the ship is nearly sunk by a hurricane.