Bonnie Pryor

In the mid-nineteenth century, teenager Lee Chin and his father leave China for California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where Lee defies his father's wishes and saves money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, then brings her to join him in beginning a new life in America. Includes historical note about the Chinese who helped build the transcontinental railroad.

After her parents and brother are killed by Loyalists, fourteen-year-old Hannah leaves their farm and eventually, disguised as a boy, joins a pirate ship that preys on other ships to get supplies for the American Revolution.

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.

In the early days of the Civil War, Joseph must decide whether to defend his stepfather's abolitionist and pro-Union beliefs or side with the slave owners and Southern rights supporters in his home town of Branson Mills, Kentucky.

The Bear family's winter adventures prepare them for Christmas.

Two mouse brothers find it difficult to live together until a cat threatens to do away with one of them.

Four episodes demonstrate the imaginative games Grandpa Bear plays with Samantha and the affection between them.

During the course of three hundred years, many people have passed by or lived on the spot now occupied by a house numbered 107 Maple Street.