Youth Fiction

Join Jed Cartwright and his family as they travel by train to South Carolina to meet Jed's adopted grandfather, the keeper of the lighthouse at Sharktooth Point. During their visit, Jed and Nathan discover that someone is using the old lighthouse to...

When Jed and his new brother Nathan accompany Pa Cartwright on a trip to the Colorado Territory, they learn of a gold mine that has been lost for more than thirty years. Setting out to find it, the boys discover that someone else knows the mine's...

Book Six in the Jed Cartwright Series. As Jed Cartwright is riding Midnight on a deserted road at the edge of town, he is accosted by a desperate gunman determined to steal his horse. A young rancher passing by, Drew Bryant, witnesses the attempted...

Book Eight in the Jed Cartwright Series. When Pa Cartwright moves his family to the outskirts of St. Joseph, Jed is delighted to learn that the Pony Express trail crosses their new property. Imagine his astonishment when one of the riders turns out to be...

Product Description Jem can't wait for school to let out for the year. Is there anything more boring than class when you could be outside? When rich boy Will brings a coin collection to school, it's an exciting treat. It isn't often the students get to...

Product Description Jem is turning eight years old. And there's just one thing he wants for his birthday: a prospecting trip with Strike-it-rich Sam. With his grown-up friend to watch out for him, Jem's parents say yes. It's off for two weeks in the...

In Jem Strikes Gold, 7-year-old Jem Coulter's family is trying to make a go of it in Goldtown, with Pa panning for gold and Mama baking pies and washing laundry to make ends meet. Jem and his little sister Ellie do everything they can to help out...

Jem needs to buy food for his dog, Gold Nugget. But try as he may, his panning just never leads to gold. When he asks for a job, Mr. Sims, the café owner, sends him out to catch bullfrogs for the menu. Money and frog catching--what a great...

Johnny Tremain, winner of the 1944 Newbery Medal, is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. As compelling today as it was seventy years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the...

There's something mysterious going on in everyone's favorite town . . . Odyssey, of course! No mystery is too big or too small for Emily Jones and Matthew Parker. Whether it is helping the new doctor unlock her office safe or helping Mr. Whittaker find...

After the Second World War, Anne De Vries, one of the most popular novelists in The Netherlands, was commissioned to capture in literary form the spirit and agony of those five harrowing years of Nazi occupation. The result was Journey Through the Night,...

After the Second World War, Anne De Vries, one of the most popular novelists in The Netherlands, was commissioned to capture in literary form the spirit and agony of those five harrowing years of Nazi occupation. The result was Journey Through the Night,...