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Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
58 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, discussing city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements, and more.
Author
Publisher
American Girls Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Addy and Harriet feud over everything, including fund-raising plans to help the families of freed slaves, but tragedy finally forces them to stop fighting and work together.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Publications
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
42 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her brother joins the family in Philadelphia at the end of the Civil War, Addy wants to be with him as much as possible, so she is jealous when he starts spending time with her friend's cousin. Includes information about the life of African Americans in Philadelphia in the 1860s and a recipe for letter cookies.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
In colonial Williamsburg, nine-year-old Felicity's dancing skills improve when she changes from wearing clumsy shoes to dainty slippers but ultimately she learns that "Gracefulness is in the foot, not the shoe." Includes information on the education of girls in colonial America, focusing on dance, and presents square dance instructions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Publications
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
39 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a new girl arrives at school, Kirsten is jealous, completely forgetting how scared and lonely she felt the year before when she was the new girl in school. Gives instructions for making a friendship pillow like those made in the 1850s.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
Molly is eager to meet a famous movie star at a War Bond rally, until she cannot find the money that her class had collected to buy a bond. Includes information on movies during World War II and a recipe for popcorn.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Molly conquers her fear of swimming underwater when she and the other campers at Camp Gowonagin divide into two teams to play Color War. Molly is a lively, lovable schemer and dreamer growing up in 1944. Her stories describe her life on the home front during World War Two. Molly doesn't like many of the changes the war has brought, and she especially misses her father, who is away caring for wounded soldiers. But Molly learns the importance of getting...
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
131 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1908, eleven-year-old Innie joins the library club at a settlement house that serves immigrant families of Boston's North End, but when items and money disappear from the settlement house, Innie's past as a troublemaker puts her under suspicion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
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