Orem Library

A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.

Featuring the charming characters from the Newbery Honor Book, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, this exciting chapter book series introduces young readers to Callie Vee and the rough and tumble world of turn of the century Texas. When Travis finds an abandoned baby squirrel, he brings him home and names him Fluffy. But Mother is not so sure that Fluffy is such a great family pet, and neither is Thud, the cat. Will Fluffy be able to steer clear of...

Calpurnia and her grandfather rescue a barn owl from the river and, with the help of Dr. Pritzker, dead mice, and some detective work, nurse it back to health.

In rural Texas in 1901, thirteen-year-old Callie nurses a butterfly with a broken wing and delivers a baby lamb, despite her mother's disapproval of Callie's "unladylike behavior."

A little pioneer girl and her family spend the winter in their log cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Anton, laughed at and called a fool in his small village, proves himself a hero when he hides a Jewish family from the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Seven-year-old George "Babe" Ruth (who would grow up to become a baseball legend) steals a dollar from his father's saloon to treat his friends to ice cream. Includes timeline.

After Mama takes a job in Chicago during World War II, Ada Ruth stays with Grandma but misses her mother who loves her more than rain and snow.

A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.

A child, who remembers life at home before life in a concentration camp, makes toys with the women to give to the other children at the very special party they are going to have when the soldiers arrive to liberate the camp.