A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.

Hitty is a doll of great charm and character. Hitty, or Mehitable as she was really named, was made in the early 1800s for Phoebe Preble, a little girl from Maine. This is the story of Hitty's years with Phoebe, and the many that follow in the life of a well-loved doll.

Sixteen original stories reflecting the spirit of Chinese life and thought.

Ten-year-old Birdie can not wait to pick the strawberries her family has planted at their new home in the Florida backwoods.

A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.