Hellem Keller merupakan sosok yang menjadi bukti bahwa keterbatasan yang dimiliki seseorang tidak dapat menjadi penghalang untuk memperoleh kesuksesan. Meski tidak dapat melihat dan mendengar, yang…
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralist of all time. In what is by …
Think homeschooling is only for a handful of eccentrics? Think again. IN today's America, two million primary-and secondary-school students are educated at home, and those numbers are growing by le…
Table of Contents: The horse of wood; the sack of troy; aeneas and anchises; of the voyage of aenes; the voyage of aeneas; shipwreck; carthage; dido; the funereal games of anchises; the burning of …
Johnny Tremain is fourteen and apprenticed to a silversmith. He is gifted and clever and lords his talent over the other apprentices-until tragedy strikes. A crucible of molten silver breaks and th…
Anne of Green Gables is all grown up almost. At sixteen, Anne has transformed from student to teacher, and she's the new big sister to seven-year-old twins, quiet Dora and mischievous Davy. A grump…
Laura and her family are headed to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land-and stop moving. The new town of De Smet is filling up with settlers lured west by the promise of free lan…
Laura is teaching school, and it's terrifying! Most of the students are taller than she is, and she must live away from home for the first time. Laura is miserable, but every Friday-no matter what …
The town of De Smet is hit with terrible, howling blizzards. Snow has reached the rooftops, and no trains can get through with food or coal. The people of De Smet, including Laura's family, are sta…