Lyons Regional Library

Joining her cousin Ruby on a search for Ruby's missing father, leads Hildy to a confrontation with wealthy cattleman, Ozzie Kessick.

Twelve-year-old Hildy and her family have a hard life in California during the Depression, but her efforts to help the daughter of an outlaw strengthens Hildy's faith.

Hildy Corrigan, 12, came home one day to find that her stepmother had taken her brother and 4 sisters and left Hildy alone. Angry and determined, Hildy refuses to stay with her backwoods granny and runs off with her cousin Ruby to find her family. Granny sends an evil mountain hunter on their track, determined to have Hildy to herself, and Hildy despairs of keeping her promise to her siblings to never let them be separated.

An account of the early railroad era in the United States, describing the first trains, progress in train development, the growth of railroad networks, and the contribution of trains to the growth of the country.

Returning to the Ozark Mountains to visit their grandmothers, Hildy and Ruby encounter old mountain hatreds, danger, and forgiveness.

After his stepfather becomes an abolitionist, ten-year-old Joseph struggles with his own thoughts about slavery as he sees its divisive power in his small Kentucky town.

You are living through a pivotal time in the history of the United States. The North and the South are waging a bloody civil war. The North and the South are waging a bloody civil war. The heaviest fighting is on the ground. But the battle goes on at sea as well. Both sides are at work on secret naval weapons -- ironclad ships. You will need all of your wits to survive the coming battle.

In the early years of the Revolutionary War, eleven-year-old Thomas and his family escape a bloody massacre at Wyoming Valley and endure innumerable hardships as they try to make their way to Philadelphia.

You are on the front lines of the bloodiest war ever fought on American soil. The Civil War rages on as Confederate troops converge on Union forces near Antietam Creek in Maryland. You will need all of your wits to survive the coming battle.