Almanzo shares a wonderful Christmas with his extended family on their farm in New York.
Archive for the ‘Historical’
Finishing Becca: A Story About Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold
Fourteen-year-old Becca takes a position as a maid in a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker home and witnesses the events that lead to General Benedict Arnold’s betrayal of the American forces during the Revolutionary War.
A Little House of Their Own
After achieving her dream of becoming a teacher in her small farm town of Concord, Wisconsin, in 1857, seventeen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, begins a courtship with Charles Ingalls, a bachelor farmer who aspires to move west.
Sharpe’s Regiment: Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of France, June to November 1813
A corrupt political plot threatens to put an end to the South Essex regiment and the life of Major Richard Sharpe when he investigates and discovers an illegal recruiting ring selling soldiers like cattle to other divisions.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
American history’s most famous outlaw comes alive in Ron Hansen’s imaginative recreation of the West. The charismatic Jesse James has a quick temper, an even faster draw, and holds sway over his ragged ganguntil the arrival of upstart Robert Ford. Torn between worship and jealousy, Ford makes a fateful decision that torments him for the rest of his lifeand becomes one of the most legendary events of the American frontier. ‘A terrific book’.NEWSDAY.
