Collier, James Lincoln

A young black girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity.

Fourteen-year-old Chris, a poor relation of the wealthy Winchesters, must chose whether to be on the side of management or labor when his classmates' parents go on strike at the Winchester mill in response to a wage cut.

In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in a gruelling job in the local textile mill to help pay her father's debts, fifteen-year-old Annie becomes the victim of the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.

While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by an African-American Union soldier.

Explains the diseases that led to the discovery of vaccines, how vaccines work, and how that has changed the history of medicine.

Examines the life of political wife and activist Eleanor Roosevelt, discussing her childhood and family, her marriage to her distant cousin Franklin, her work with the League of Women Voters, her husband's polio, her efforts as First Lady, and her later association with the United Nations.

Tragedy strikes the Meeker family during the American Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces,while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral, in a Tory town.

Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack community.

Ashamed of his parents' way of life traveling around the country peddling honey for medicinal purposes and stealing, Fergy takes his young sister and runs away to find his mother's wealthy parents and a better way to live.

A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.