When twelve-year-old Ellie inherits an old Vermont farm from her cruel and heartless grandmother Aurelia, she reads a set of diaries written by an ancestor and discovers secrets from the past.
Fifteen-year-old Phoebe Olcott, distraught when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged as a British spy, becomes caught up in the turmoil of war when she decides to deliver the secret message Gideon was carrying to the British general at Fort Ticonderoga.
After a series of strange occurrences challenges his hard-headed realism, Sam, whose sister mysteriously disappeared fifteen years earlier, wonders if there is a world beyond our own when he is drawn into a vortex of evil and terror that reminds him of a promise he made long ago.
When an old man puts a piece of land up for sale in Vermont, the local Abenaki Indian tribe protest, claiming it is a burial ground, and when odd, supernatural events start plaguing the town, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince residents that there is nothing spiritual about the property.
Presents the script of the drama in which the posting of anonymous, racist letters on the door of an African-American college student sets dean Sarah Daniels on a quest to find the perpetrator, and forces her to confront her own feelings about racism.
Upon learning that an older woman has moved into the run-down, creepy Crab Apple Hill Farm, nine-year-old Keeker rides her pony, Plum, over to find out whether the woman is a witch.
When John has an accident while cutting logs in the Vermont woods, Tom, the Morgan horse who is his work partner and friend, uses intelligence and strength to rescue him.
An illustrated introduction to Vermont that covers the geography, climate, weather, plants, animals, history, people, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, and entertainment of the state.
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
