Uses a fictional story of a boy's visit to his grandfather's house in the Florida Keys to discuss the behavior and habitat of the small deer that have lived there for hundreds of years.
In Florida during the First Seminole War, eleven-year-old Tilly and her family, slaves on the Miller Plantation, try to reach St. Augustine in hopes of gaining their freedom.
Patrick Moffit and his father, who is always trying one get-rich-quick scheme or another, travel to a small island in Nova Scotia, where his father hopes to find a famous lost treasure, but it looks l
When the Lucy B., a river boat giving tours of the Florida wilderness, is destroyed, Ricardo Martinez must help get the passengers, including a quarrelsome family and two obnoxious teenagers, to safet
When Union troops burn Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Abbie Lee Mason, whose family supports the Confederacy although they own no slaves, is angry, but when she and Liney, a neighbor's slave, find a wo
When Rashad Gaines takes a job cleaning out an abandoned theater, he wonders if the mishaps that keep occuring have any connection with the last production, a science fiction tale about a rejuvenation
Intersperses facts about immigrants and immigration in the United States between the years 1892 and 1924 with the fictional story of twelve-year-old Lena Martini's family as they emigrate from Italy.
David and his family use his grandfather's time travel machine to travel to 1853 Ohio, where they assist runaway slaves on their journey north on the Underground Railroad.
