A high school teacher drills his students on ideas of power, discipline, and superiority to illustrate the development of attitudes such as those that allowed the Germans to deny responsibility for…
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and h…
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but a…
Shipwreck survival -- Juvenile fiction. Families -- Juvenile fiction. Islands -- Juvenile fiction.
Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Juvenile fiction. Epidemics -- Juvenile fiction. Survival -- Juvenile fiction.