On My Own History

With striking, full-page illustrations, real and fictionalized characters, and stories featuring events that really happened, these books capture readers’ interest and imagination.

Cover: Lost at the White House: A 1909 Easter Story
Cover: Danger at the Breaker
Cover: The Flight of the Union
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Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
Many Ways to Be a Soldier
The Copper Lady
An American Army of Two
Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride
The Day of the Black Blizzard
Lost at the White House: A 1909 Easter Story
Buttons for General Washington
Washington Is Burning
The Schoolchildren's Blizzard
Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express
Rescue on the Outer Banks
I Pledge Allegiance, 2nd Edition
The Night the Chimneys Fell
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On My Own History

With striking, full-page illustrations, real and fictionalized characters, and stories featuring events that really happened, these books capture readers’ interest and imagination. View →