Clark, Clara Gillow

Based on the life of the author's great-grandmother and set in the late 1800s in a Pa. canal town, this is the story of one girl's determination under the most oppressive circumstances.

A thirteen-year-old boy learns life's lessons when he runs away from the farm to join a traveling medicne show.

As her grandmother's financial situation worsens, Hattie is forced to attend a "common school," in late nineteenth-century Kingston, New York, where she stands up to a show-off, shares embellished stories about life as a rich girl, and tries to recover her family's wealth.

A thirteen-year-old boy learns life's lessons when he runs away from the farm to join a traveling medicine show.

Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on an adventure-filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia.

Living in the 1920s, Annie must decide whether to go on to high school or stay at home to help her family.

In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother in the city of Kingston, New York, to be educated and learn about polite society, and, while there, discovers the fate of her missing grandfather.

Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on a adventure-filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia.

Nellie struggles to survive in the rough-and-tumble world of a Pennsylvania canal town.