While visiting relatives in Florida, teenage twins Sara and Sam investigate a mystery on a nearby key, where strange incidents are occurring in a villa left abandoned by the death of a stage magician.
Accompanying their father on a project that takes them to a ghost town in Nevada, teenage twins Sara and Sam discover peculiar nocturnal activities and clues to a hidden treasure of gold nuggets.
While in the hospital, Jon Reed receives a 1794 copper cent piece from his father, who tells him it is a good luck penny that has been in the family for several generations. Alone and frightened before his operation, Jon clutches the old coin in his hand and wonders who else has held the good luck penny as closely as he is holding it now-- Jeremy, the poor chimney sweep in Philadelphia . . . Joshua, a slave boy whose parents were sold down river . . . Ben, a fugitive on the Underground Railroad . . . Nancy, who traveled the Oregon Trail and was captured by Indians . . . Running Bear, who joined Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce on their long, sad trek to Canada and freedom . . . The adventures of the good luck penny span two centuries and cross a continent. In its exciting travels it brings hope and a message of freedom to those who own it. And as Jon Reed discovers, the penny's true destiny, like happiness, is to be passed on to those who need it most.
Teenage twins Sara and Sam investigate a young Vietnamese refugee hiding in an abandoned cabin and the mysterious disappearance of thoroughbred stallions from a neighbor's horse farm.
When Indians burn her home, kill her parents, and take her young brother captive, Kate Stewart has no one to turn to but Uncle Josh, a circuit rider in the back country of Pennsylvania. Her uncle takes Kate to the Moravian town of Bethlehem, where he thinks she will be safe during the fall of 1775. While staying in Bethlehem, Kate tries to understand the Moravians' love of peace and their friendship with all people, friends and enemies alike. But her hatred of Indians grows as she watches the endless stream of frightened refugees come to the town for shelter from Delaware and Shawnee raids in the French and Indian War. Word reaches Bethlehem that the Indians plan to attack the town on Christmas Eve. Kate wonders at the peace-loving Moravians, who calmly go about their work and continue their plans for the Christmas surprise for the children. During that fateful Christmas Eve Kate discovers that true strength lies in peace with all people and in trusting God.
While accompanying their father to Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, to do research on a French refugee settlement of 200 years ago, twins Sam and Sara become involved in a search for the valuable stolen pendant of an Indian princess.
The summer 15-year-old Betty Jo spends working in a craft village in the West Virginia mountains, she becomes involved in a mystery which, when solved, exonerates her father from a crime of which he has been falsely accused.
A Puerto Rican boy has trouble adjusting to his new life in a Pennsylvania steel town. When he asked to teach some English words to a parrot, Tomás learns the difficult language himself.
Two Scotch-Irish boys travel across Pennsylvania in 1799 with a circuit-riding preacher to search for their mother whom they expect to find in Pittsburgh working and getting a home ready for them.
Melissa leaves her housing project in New York City to spend two weeks on a New Jersey horse farm where she makes good friends with another girl and with a horse.
When Indians burn her home, kill her parents, and take her young brother captive, Kate Stewart has no one to turn to but Uncle Josh, a circuit rider in the back country of Pennsylvania. Her uncle takes Kate to the Moravian town of Bethlehem, where he thinks she will be safe during the fall of 1775. While staying in Bethlehem, Kate tries to understand the Moravians' love of peace and their friendship with all people, friends and enemies alike. But her hatred of Indians grows as she watches the endless stream of frightened refugees come to the town for shelter from Delaware and Shawnee raids in the French and Indian War. Word reaches Bethlehem that the Indians plan to attack the town on Christmas Eve. Kate wonders at the peace-loving Moravians, who calmly go about their work and continue their plans for the Christmas surprise for the children. During that fateful Christmas Eve Kate discovers that true strength lies in peace with all people and in trusting God.
While in the hospital, Jon Reed receives a 1794 copper cent piece from his father, who tells him it is a good luck penny that has been in the family for several generations. Alone and frightened before his operation, Jon clutches the old coin in his hand and wonders who else has held the good luck penny as closely as he is holding it now-- Jeremy, the poor chimney sweep in Philadelphia . . . Joshua, a slave boy whose parents were sold down river . . . Ben, a fugitive on the Underground Railroad . . . Nancy, who traveled the Oregon Trail and was captured by Indians . . . Running Bear, who joined Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce on their long, sad trek to Canada and freedom . . . The adventures of the good luck penny span two centuries and cross a continent. In its exciting travels it brings hope and a message of freedom to those who own it. And as Jon Reed discovers, the penny's true destiny, like happiness, is to be passed on to those who need it most.
Unhappy with his mother's choice of a new friend so soon after his father's tragic death, fourteen-year-old Jeff comes to terms with life while lost in the labyrinthine New Jersey Pines.
After a young boy reports that he overheard a British plot to melt the Liberty Bell for cannon, he finds his family at the center of a dangerous plan to save the bell.
While accompanying their father to Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, to do research on a French refugee settlement of 200 years ago, twins Sam and Sara become involved in a search for the valuable stolen pendant of an Indian princess.
Accompanying their father on a project that takes them to a ghost town in Nevada, teenage twins Sara and Sam discover peculiar nocturnal activities and clues to a hidden treasure of gold nuggets.
Teenage twins Sara and Sam investigate a young Vietnamese refugee hiding in an abandoned cabin and the mysterious disappearance of thoroughbred stallions from a neighbor's horse farm.
A Puerto Rican boy has trouble adjusting to his new life in a Pennsylvania steel town. When he asked to teach some English words to a parrot, Tomás learns the difficult language himself.
A Mennonite brother and sister move with their parents to a reputedly haunted house on Blue Mountain in Pennsylvania and resolve several mysteries while also helping their ornithologist father establish a bird refuge.
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