Describes, in question and answer format, how fugitive slaves made their way to freedom.

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.

Told from a child's perspective, this book depicts the earthquake of 1906 that shattered San Francisco.

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

This book tells what it was like to grow up in a Iroquois family

The story of the five-hundred-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas, is told from the tree's point of view, covering the nation's history that took place during the tree's lifetime and describing the malicious 1989 poisoning that nearly destroyed it.

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.