Kiowa County Public Library District

The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, keptthe last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in this small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend. Perfection Form, 9-91, Act 90, '91-'92.

Emancipated by their owner's will, thirteen-year-old Evie and her father struggle to gain Mama's freedom and to make a home for themselves in the pre-Civil War South.

Living with her family in the farming town of Palouse, Washington, during World War II, thirteen-year-old Josie worries about her brother's strange behavior and wonders why he has not enlisted.

Jim Benton's tales from Mackeral Middle School continue through the diary of Jamie Kelly.

When her wounded brother returns from battle, twelve-year-old Mary must get help for him without telling her father, a wealthy Tory, who has disowned his son for joining General Washington's Continental Army.

Twelve-year-old Emma receives unexpected friendship from a Black roustabout and a Union soldier during an explosion on the steamboat Sultana in 1865.

In Texas in 1886, Ellen finds her desire to be a cattle rancher discouraged by family members who do not think it a proper choice for a girl, but she proves her worth when drought threatens the ranch.