Stories of the states
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah's feelings about life on her family's California farm change when she writes a letter to President Teddy Roosevelt to protest diverting water for the growing city of Los Angeles and when she saves her twin brother from a fire.
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
Fire in the valley
Twelve-year-old Sarah's feelings about life on her family's California farm change when she writes a letter to President Teddy Roosevelt to protest diverting water for the growing city of Los Angeles and when she saves her twin brother from a fire.
Voyage of the Half Moon
A fictionalized account of Henry Hudson's third attempt to find the Northwest Passage, sailing up what will come to be known as the Hudson River, accompanied by his twelve-year-old son.
Mr. Peale's bones
An eleven-year-old boy living in New York State joins the expedition of nineteenth-century artist and scientist Charles Willson Peale to dig for mammoth bones on a nearby farm.
East Side Story (Stories of the States)
A young girl and her older sister, working in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, an early twentieth-century sweatshop on the Lower East Side of New York City, join a protest to try to improve the miserable working conditions.
Golden quest
As they mingle with the gold miners in their parents' dining hall, eleven-year-old David and his younger sister are caught up in the debate about California statehood and slavery.