Sisters in time

Time Period: 1931

Twenty-five percent unemployment, food lines, banks and businesses closing...

The Great Depression was not only a national catastrophe, but a personal one, as well.Follow the fictional story of Anna Harrington to see how this time of upheaval affected a twelve-year-old girl who saw her friends and acquaintances devastated by economic events.

Written especially for eight- to twelve-year-old girls, this very personal story

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When 11-year-old Kate Milton and her cousin happen across the Boston Tea Party, they unwittingly step into the midst of the American Revolution. Kate soon finds herself pulled deeper into the conflict by members of her own family. In 1775, in Boston, Massachusetts, as the British siege brings increasing hardships and growing resentment to the community, eleven-year-old Kate decides to go against her Loyalist parents and help her cousin spy for the...

Time Period: 1844

Slavery is a growing issue in the United States of the 1840s...but Meg Buehler can only think about drawing. This fictional twelve year old, an aspiring artist, is frustrated when her family, much more concerned with practical living and politics, can't understand her desire to create. Especially for girls ages eight to twelve, this poignant story shares the struggles and triumphs of a girl distant in time but close in spirit-while

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In 1621, newly arrived at Plymouth Colony, eleven-year-old Rebekah and her family find themselves facing a difficult winter with little food, inadequate shelter, sickness, and little hope for the future until help arrives with an unexpected visitor.

Natural disasters and social attitudes in 1832 Cincinnati threaten to ruin twelve-year-old Emma Farley's secret hope. Can she rise above them to live her God-given dreams?

In colonial Boston, a twelve-year-old girl finds her heart stirred by the great revival known as the Great Awakening and determines she must dare to help a mistreated slave girl.

As her family's finances dry up in the Midwest drought, Grace wonders what she can do to help her loved ones, along with an unkempt bully and a newly arrived, mysterious young woman. Using actual historical events, this book teaches an important lesson on judging others. Ten-year-old Cincinnatian Grace Morgan is fed up with the unkempt boy who harrasses her quiet cousin, but she sees things differently when their town is hit by a serious drought...

Nellie Starr, a young Cherokee girl, and her family are forced by U.S. soldiers to leave their home in Tennessee and travel the "Trail of Tears" to a new home in the western Indian territory.