illinois

Explores the conflict between labor and capital in late nineteenth-century America through an examination of union organizer Eugene V. Debs and his instigation of the worker strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago.

Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides.

With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.

Provides information about the complex social and political culture of the prehistoric North American Indians who established an urban center along the banks of the Mississippi River in what is now Cahokia, Illinois, and discusses what archaeologists have learned from their excavations at the Cahokia Mounds site.

In 1918 Illinois, Ida Lou dreams of finding her estranged father by becoming an aerialist in the circus, but her plans may be sidetracked by a terrible accident.

Born into an Illinois farm family in 1906, Elsie Lee Splear describes how she, her parents, and her sisters lived in the early years of the twentieth century and how the changing seasons shaped their existence.

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

Focuses on a thirteen-year-old boy who works on his family's farm, caring for livestock, harvesting hay, and preparing to manage the farm himself one day.