Duey, Kathleen

Orphaned nine-year-old Katie Rose develops a bond with an untamed Mustang on the Stevens' farm where she lives doing chores all day as she dreams of going west to find her uncle.

In alternate chapters, Sadima travels from her farm home to the city and becomes assistant to a heartless man who is trying to restore knowledge of magic to the world, and a group of boys fights to survive in the academy that has resulted from his efforts.

In 1892 Max and Jodi, young employee of a traveling circus, find their lives endangered when their train wrecks in a storm.

A brother and sister struggle to survive the rigors of Death Valley after their wagon breaks down.

When Rory disguises herself as a boy in order to work in a coal mine, she and her friend struggle to survive a cave-in disaster.

While working as an indentured servant on a plantation in Virginia in 1749, thirteen-year-old Summer must prove her innocence when her master's daughter accuses her of stealing.

When Rosa experiences the Hollywood movie scene first hand, she questions her previous enthusiasm about the industry.

In 1827 in Idaho twelve-year-old Celou Sudden Shout, who is half-French and half-Shoshone, attempts to rescue her mother and two younger brothers from the Crow warriors who kidnapped them.

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.