Mosher, Howard Frank

Seventeen-year-old Morgan Kinneson, a member of an abolitionist family in 1864, heads south after the murder of a slave in his care in search of his brother, a Union doctor who has gone missing in the midst of the Civil War, pursued by a group of escaped convicts who want the mysterious stone that has fallen into Morgan's hands.

Tells the stories of families living in rural Vermont in the mid 1900's.

A Vermont boy shares the remote village's obsession with the Boston Red Sox and the coaching of Teddy Williams.

Six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves the home of his widowed father, in King County Vermont, to live with his grandparents on their farm, and comes of age in a rural town where fights at the one-room schoolhouse, family reunions, and adventures at the county fair shape him into a man.

Ethan "E.A." Allen, a boy raised in the remote village of Kingdom Common, Vermont, by his honky-tonk mother and crippled grandmother, shares the town's obsession with baseball and the Boston Red Sox, and with the coaching of Teddy Williams, a mystery man who arrives in town one day, becomes the pitcher who breaks the team's long-time losing streak.