At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

Teenager Eliza and her friends are going to explore a cave near their upstate New York home, but first her friends insist on dragging her to Drowner's Swamp, a bog legendary for its dangerous sinkholes, and a place which her mother has frequently warned her about; Eliza does not want to go, and when the earth opens up and swallows her she finds herself in a system of caves--and what she finds living there is strange and dangerous beyond anything the...

Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War ll while her father is away inthe navy.

A weekend in New York State spells trouble for the kids when a vengeful ghost on horseback tears across the countryside under the light of the moon. Noah's got his hands full, although he doesn't mind the freedom that a weekend at the Murphy's apple orchard offers. He's got farm chores to do and a geocache to locate--an extra credit assignment that might be his only chance at raising his failing history grade. But when its GPS coordinates point toward...