Genre: MG Historical

Callahan Crossroads by Anola Pickett

Callahan Crossroads by Anola Pickett

Grown-ups said us kids could help our country win. Eat more corn. Give up sugar. Buy Thrift stamps. Collect prune pits. After a whole year doing this sissy stuff, we still hadn’t won. I wasn’t old enough to enlist, but this summer I’d do something dangerous. Something tough and brave. —George Callahan Twelve-year-old George’s family won’t take him seriously. He’s ready to fight like a […]

July 17, 2015 / 0 Comments
The Sound of Life and Everything by Krista Van Dolzer

The Sound of Life and Everything by Krista Van Dolzer

Twelve-year-old Ella Mae Higbee is a sensible girl. She eats her vegetables and wants to be just like Sergeant Friday, her favorite character on Dragnet. So when her auntie Mildred starts spouting nonsense about a scientist who can bring her cousin back to life from blood on his dog tags, Ella Mae is skeptical—until he steps out of a bio-pod right before her eyes. But […]

May 13, 2015 / 0 Comments
Chimmeken Crossing the Delaware by D. Lee Jortner

Chimmeken Crossing the Delaware by D. Lee Jortner

Folklore and history intermix in a tale of George Washington’s forces in the historic battle in Trenton on Christmas Day in 1776. Unseen and magical forces are not recorded in our history books, but are now exposed in this new and exciting look at the crossing of the Delaware. Chimmeken, a young German American gnome, presides over a different kind of assemby—one of sprites, tricksters, […]

November 26, 2014 / 0 Comments
Get That Gold! by L.T. Downing

Get That Gold! by L.T. Downing

“Now you have the record in your own hands. But you are only a man. Therefore, you will have to be watchful and faithful to your trust, or you will be overpowered by wicked men who will plan and scheme and get them away from you. If you do not take heed continually, they will succeed” —Angel Moroni upon delivering the Gold Plates to Joseph […]

October 25, 2013 / 0 Comments