Renée Graef

On a Minnesota farm in the mid 1800's, the hard working members of the Larson family find time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday.

A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.

Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.

Presents a series of words related to libraries, arranged alphabetically, in simple text with illustrations, from author and Dewey Decimal System, to reference and storytelling, and more.

A little boy tries to make his ever playful puppy, Petey, understand it is bedtime and tires himself out in the process.

In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.

Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War.