Troy would rather kill soldiers in his computer game than write an essay for the Anzac Day competition. But when his mum comes home from Nanna Elsie's with old photos and a journal from Gallipoli, he is transported to the horrors of a real battlefield. Whose journal is it and what is in it that makes Troy have a change of heart about writing the ......
"Promise to remember me" was the only thing that the mysterious woman had ever said to him. She had appeared from nowhere one day, when the hunter had been alone during the long winter months. Just as suddenly she had disappeared, but the hunter was sure he would keep his promise and see her once again. Join world-renowned storyteller Joseph ......
With just 80 soldiers, Captain Fetterman boasted that he could defeat the entire Lakota nation. In 1866, after the Civil War, he would get his chance against Lakota chief Red Cloud. Fetterman's failure forced a negotiated peace treaty conceding every demand by the Lakota!
Ages 6 to 9 years. Young children will enjoy the wise mans timeless stories. Two men of opposing views asked separately Am I not right, Hodja? The wise man agreed with both men. The wise mans wife caught him out: "You said both of them were right. One of them must be wrong, mustnt he?" "You are also right, my dear, responded Hodja". Hodja lived ......
Young Lone Bull dreamed of becoming a warrior. For the tribes of the American plains in the Buffalo Days of pre-reservation life, horse raiding was a chance for men to show their courage and bravery in battle. But Lone Bull's father had just refused to let him join the horse raid! How could he become a warrior if he remained at home?
"Make sure Hamza never says a mean word to you again," ordered Samuel's father, the grand vizier. As the most important advisor in the royal court in medieval Spain, Samuel could hardly disobey him. But, what could he do to stop Hamza being mean to him?
Ann Fay Honeycutt accepts the role of "man of the house" when her father leaves to fight Hitler because she wants to do her part for the war in this Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book. She's doing well with the extra responsibilities when a frightening polio epidemic strikes, crippling many local children. Her town of Hickory responds by creating ......
Red Hawk's Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
When 700 men commanded by General Custer faced the combined forces of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at the Little Bighorn, the massacre became the stuff of legend. This title retells this story of honor and bravery through the eyes of Red Hawk, a fictional young Lakota warrior.
Charlotte's Rose - justifiably back in print - tells the story of a young Welsh girl, Charlotte Edwards, who, soon after her mother dies, sails with her father from England to the United States to become part of a company of Mormon handcart pioneers - emigrants with no horses or oxen who themselves pulled the heavy carts filled with their ......
