Ellen Levine

Southern blacks who were young and involved in the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s describe their experiences.

In World War II, a German secret agent is landed in Florida by submarine, his mission to obtain details of U.S. warplanes. The operation goes askew when a priest hears of it in the course of a confession and goes after the spy on his own. By the author of the non-fiction Operation Drumbeat.

In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.

When her family moves to New York from Hong Kong, Mei Mei finds it difficult to adjust to school and learn the alien sounds of English.

Describes, in question and answer format, the great migration of immigrants to New York's Ellis Island, from the 1880s to 1914. Features quotes from children and adults who passed through the station.

Tells you what it was like to be a pioneer and travel west to Oregon in the 1840s.

In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve-year-old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her parents lose their jobs and she is fired from the school newspaper.

A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

This book focuses on the Civil RightssMovement of the 1950s and 1960s. Full-color art and an engaging question-and-answer format help children learn what it was like to participate in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, stage a sit-in at a lunch counter, join the famous March on Washington, and more.

The Storykeepers takes you into the unforgettable world of the underground church of the first-century Christians. In this episode, Nero's soldiers use a catapult to lob firebombs on the Christians, trapping Ben and his friends between the blazing city and the soldiers. Zak's rescue attempt goes awry, plunging his getaway vehicle and all aboard into the heart of the firestorm. Includes the stories of blind Bartimaeus and Jesus and the children.

This book takes you to San Francisco, California, shortly before, during and after the great earthquake of April 18, 1906.

An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.