The Floating House

The Puffin Book of Salt-sea Verse

The Stolen Songbird

California: Adventures in Time and Place

The Lilac Tree

Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido De Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon Grove

Luce Finds Her Hero (Hippo Cafe Club)

Princes and Princesses

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The time is 1813, during America's last war with England; the place is the Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village greens. Each log cabin is a fortress, and no one travels without a knife and gun. Through this armed and fearful countryside, three people-Ely Jackson, a 17-year-old backwoods boy; Owen Lightfoot, a lawyer from Philadelphia with a romantic view of the frontier; and Rain Hawk, a half-breed girl living on her own in the wilderness-chase an awesome quarry, a mysterious giant-like figure who is on the run for murder. Ely and Owen set out on the trail of the "Bearman" with the intent of bringing him "to justice," while Rain Hawk struggles to protect him from the public's wrath. Bad Man Ballad is a riveting tale by a masterful storyteller and an appealing contemporary addition to the Library of Indiana Classics.


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The Floating House

Scott Russell Sanders, Helen Cogancherry, 1995

The Puffin Book of Salt-sea Verse

Charles Causley, 1978

The Stolen Songbird

Judith Eagle, 2023

California: Adventures in Time and Place

James A. Banks, Barry K. Beyer, Gloria Cibtreras, 2000

The Lilac Tree

Helen-Dunmore, 2000

Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido De Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon Grove

Christy Hale, 2019

Luce Finds Her Hero (Hippo Cafe Club)

Ann Bryant, 1998

Princes and Princesses

Christopher Rawson, 1980