• Daddy-Long-Legs

    A wealthy benefactor provides money to a young orphan girl, Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, so that she can go to college. He asks that she write to him about her college experiences and progress in class but insists upon remaining anonymous. Children’s book.

  • Samantha Saves the Day

    Samantha takes a summer trip with her family to their summer home at Piney Point, returning to the lake where her parents drowned years before. When she finds her mother’s old sketch book, Samantha is surprised to realize that she has actually been to the island in the middle of the lake before, with her…

  • Samantha Learns a Lesson

    Samantha helps Nellie with her reading and lesson because she cannot attend school. In return, Nellie helps Samantha to understand the lives of working children and what factories are really like for the children who work there. American Girls book.

  • Meet Samantha

    Samantha meets Nellie, a girl her own age who has recently come to be a maid in a neighbor’s house. Nellie helps Samantha to figure out why one of her grandmother’s servant, Jessie, wants to leave her job. American Girls book.

  • The Secret School

    In 1925 rural Colorado, 14-year-old Ida wants to become a teacher, which will be impossible now that the local school has closed, unless she and her friends do something about it. Children’s book.