Bent Northrop Memorial Library

A few hours after Garnet Linden found a silver thimble in the dried-up river bed, the rains came to end the long drought on her family's Wisconsin farm.

Hitty, a doll of real character carved from a block of mountain ash, writes the story of her eventful life from the security of an antique-shop window which she shares with Theobold, a rather overbearing cat. Her career, begun in a quiet Maine village, is crowded with adventures, and she gives lively doll's-eye glimpses of the widely differing places and people that she encounters during her hundred years, and of the manners and modes of her times....

A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

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.

Andy and old Onion John are good friends until Andy's father causes problems by trying to change the old man's way of life.

Dave Mitchell, at fourteen, grows up amidst the backdrop of New York City. Dave's interactions include a stray tomcat, his first girl friend, a troubled nineteen-year-old boy, and learning to see his father as a human being, not just a parent.

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other.

The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.