Contemporary Fiction

This easy reader (for ages 7-10) is the story of a girl who has a speech defect.

Shy and afraid of her classmates, she finds a secret friend through a story hidden in a library book.

In 1587, a group of colonists set sail from England, bound for Virginia, to establish the first English colony in the New World. They never made it to Virginia, but settled on Roanoke Island. John White, the colony's founder, sailed away, promising to return. By the time he did return, the colonists...