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Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.

It's winter in Girard, Pennsylvania and the pond is completely frozen over-ready for a young boy to go skating!-but Georgie's ice skates are too small. All Georgie wants for Christmas is a new pair of skates. But times are tough in 1920s Pennsylvania, and he gets the disappointing news Santa might not come this year. Follow Georgie as he decides to take matters into his own hands-and discovers what Christmas is all about. The Santa Thief is a heartwarming...

This book surveys the geography, history, famous people, cities, resources, and entertainment of Pennsylvania.

Presents information about the state of Pennsylvania, its nickname, motto, and emblems.

Simple rhyming text presents the everyday life of a young girl, living on a Pennsylvania farm in the early eighteenth century, who is quickly outgrowing her dress.

Rachel's back in school and this year the new face of trouble is a boy named Orlie.

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 1868, John Bardsley, an immigrant from England, brought one thousand sparrows from his home country back to Philadelphia, where he hoped they would help save the trees from the inch-worms that were destroying them. Based on a true story.

A thirteen-year-old black girl from Pittsburgh describes what it is like to grow up in a tough inner-city neighborhood.