Kimberly Bulcken Root

Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.

Relates the story of the man who traveled west planting apple seeds to make the country a better place to live.

A young man's kindness to an old beggar woman earns him his weight in gold and half a kingdom.

A boy remembers his father's stories about life in East Texas during the Great Depression.

A young boy in turn-of-the-century rural Russia learns that appearances are often deceiving after he steals and then tries to return a dreidel to the traveling peddler Shnook.

A troll tries to prevent Trigg from crossing the bridge on the way to school only to be outwitted by the boy's riddles. Trigg outwits a troll who demands a toll for crossing the bridge that leads to Trigg's school. A fierce troll challenges a smart little boy in this book filled with funny riddles and rebus-like drawings. "The swift, puckish story and its plucky hero will appeal tremendously, especially to the many children inspired to play toll-bridge...

After many Saturday outings at the expense of Great Uncle Max, Amanda takes him for a surprise treat to what she calls the palace of stars.

A tinker's child who grows up helpng everyone in her Irish village is rewarded in her old age with a cabin built by fairies on Christmas Eve.

A family's cross-country communication changes during the development and demise of the Pony Express.

A Blue Ridge Mountain family is displaced to the flatlands by the creation of the Shenandoah National Park.