Kate Waters

Text and photographs of Plimouth Plantation follow a pilgrim girl through a typical day as she milks the goats, cooks and serves meals, learns her letters, and adjusts to her new stepfather.

A twelve-year-old apprentice and a seven-year-old passenger experience the first voyage of the Mayflower.

Retells the story of the first Thanksgiving as it might have happened sometime in the autumn of 1621 from the perspectives of fourteen-year-old Dancing Moccasins, a Wampanoag youth, and six-year-old Resolved White, a Pilgrim boy.

Mary Geddy, a ten-year-old girl in Williamsburg in 1776, is excited about the colony of Virginia's vote for independence, but sad that her best friend, whose father is loyal to the crown, will be moving back to England, and worried that the vote will mean her father must fight in a war.

Hurricanes and Tornadoes looks at how and why these phenomena occur.

Readers will learn all about penguins, including how they stay warm, eat, and raise their young.

Fire and water can help people. They can also cause natural disasters. Forest fires can spread quickly. Floods can cover houses and towns. Find out how people fight fires and try to prevent floods.