Puffin Newbery library

Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home.

Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucat?n, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.

A Bulgarian peasant boy must convince his mother that he is destined to be a sculptor, not a farmer.

Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.

Ronnie and his aunt take care of the lighthouse while the keeper is on vacation, and when he does not return as expected, they discover that Tern Rock is a perfect place to spend Christmas.

A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny.

The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.

In 1780, thirteen-year-old Stephanie moves with her family from Carolina to Kentucky. There the Venables family faces many hardships.

After the death of Janet's father, she must leave her school in England and move to America where she tries to find both a home and her life's work.