American adventure (Barbour)
Author
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 1
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
John and Sarah Smythe set out from Holland with their parents to be colonists in the New World.
2)
Plymouth pioneers , American adventure (Barbour) volume 2
Author
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 3
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Phillip and his sister move with their parents from Plymouth to Boston in 1634, they encounter mysterious Indians and survive narrow escapes.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 4
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A cyclone flattens much of Boston, leaving the Smythe family's carpentry shop in ruins. Then, while Father is in England, the family home burns to the ground.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 5
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While his brother-in-law is away fighting the French, Will Smith faces problems at school.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 6
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The war with the French is over, but everything in Beth Smith's life has changed. Can she look beyond her own problems and find a way to help her friends?
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 7
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
140 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a smallpox epidemic strikes Boston in 1721, eleven-year-old Rob becomes the sole caregiver of his stepfather and brother during the time of their illness.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 8
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
140 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The death of a young slave girl in Boston as well as a religious revival led by Jonathan Edwards during the Great Awakening prompt Maggie to make an important decision.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 9
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
William and Kathleen Lankford must decide whether or not to help a wounded British soldier.
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 10
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Lankford worries that his older sister Lydia might get into serious trouble by taunting and throwing snowballs at the British soldiers stationed in Boston.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 11
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living in Boston in 1773, thirteen-year-old Stephen Lankford and his older brother William become involved in the activities of the revolutionary group known as the Sons of Liberty.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 12
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paul Lankford's father returns after six years of fighting in the Revolutionary War.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 13
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Betsy Miller and her cousin are moving with their families to the river city of Cincinnati.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 14
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy who has been horribly scarred by burns helps George Lankford create his own steam engine. Then calamity strikes when an earthquake hits Cincinnati.
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 15
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century Cincinnati, ten-year-old Lucy Lankford eagerly awaits the arrival of her new piano and, along with her recently orphaned cousin Ben Allerton, tries to find out why the school bully is so attached to a worn remnant of flowered fabric.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 16
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Cincinnati, fourteen-year-old Tim Allerton finds his anti-slavery views tested when he and his younger sister Pam save the life of a slave baby whose mother has recently been murdered.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 17
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Henry Lankford survives the biggest Cincinnati flood, then must face the threat of cholera.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 18
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Black people in Cincinnati are in danger due to racial prejudice. Louisa and Henry Lankford try to help warn their friends the Birneys.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 19
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Fred is excited when William Lloyd Garrison opens a stores in Cincinnati that won't sell anything produced by slave labor. His older sister Meg thinks there must be a way to deal with the issue that won't make people so angry.
20) Enemy or friend
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 20
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When Fred's father hires a pro-slavery supervisor in his furniture factory, Fred leaves home to live with his cousin Tim.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 21
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
A Cincinnati brother and sister become involved in helping a slave escape on the Underground Railroad.
22) Time for battle
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 22
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In antebellum Cincinnati, two sets of twins come into conflict over baseball and the division between the North and the South.
23) The rebel spy
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 23
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Civil War begins and their father leaves home to serve as a doctor for the Union army, David and Daria Fisk must help their mother support the family by running a boarding house. One of their boarders is a wounded soldier who Daria suspects is a rebel spy.
24) War's end
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 24
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 25
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Walter tries to adjust to life in Minneapolis in 1876.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 26
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 27
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 28
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unsafe working conditions at a streetcar company in Minneapolis prompt workers to form a union. Anna and Richard experience the effects of the strike in the strained relations within their family, and are then caught in the middle of the riots themselves.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 29
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
30) A better bicycle
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 30
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peter Mogan wants the new style of bibycle and is willing to work all summer to get one. But Peter's attention is also taken by the new family. But there is a problem in the family. What can Peter do to help?
31) The new citizen
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 31
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 32
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mark and Sally are on vacation in San Francisco with their mother and new stepfather when an earthquake strikes and the city begins to burn.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 33
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mark and Holly must decide on what to do about their frienships with Jens and Camille.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 34
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
35) Prelude to war
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 35
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
America and Germany are at war and Carl and Edie Vaught, the American children of a German father, become objects of suspicion among their freinds.
36) The Great War
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 36
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Changes occur during World War I as students are required to burn German books at school and German-Americans are beaten and thrown into prison.
37) The flu epidemic
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 37
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 38
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 39
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1924, ten-year-old Addy relies on God's help with her atheistic piano teacher, her best friend's anger over Addy's friendship with a Jewish immigrant, and with the discovery that someone very close has joined the Ku Klux Klan.
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 40
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
41) Black Tuesday
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 41
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the beginning of the stock market crash and the Great Depression, the Harringtons are faced with the fears of many families: lost jobs and homes, and also, the threat of tuberculosis.
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 42
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the Depression, cousins Fred and Alice look for ways to help a friend whose family will soon lose their home, and another friend who is forced to live on trains because the family cannot afford to feed him.
43) Starting over
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 43
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the Depression continuing, the Harringtons are forced to leave Minneapolis after Steven and Isabel's father loses his job. Together, they travel to Seattle in search of a better life.
44) Changing times
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 44
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1937 twelve-year-old Isabel Harrington lives in Seattle and dreams of seeing Walt Disney's Snow White, but when homeless men steal Christmas gifts from her father and people insult her best friend's family just for being Japanese American, she learns ways to combat injustice.
45) Rumblings of war
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 45
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the Depression and as America prepares for war, the Harringtons are adjusting to life in Seattle and find themselves having to deal with prejudice toward their Japanese-American friends.
46) War strikes
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 46
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of an American family and their Japanese-American friends who are imprisoned in internment camps during World War II.
47) The home front
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 47
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, the Harringons find themselves faced with various hardships, including food shortages, as well as trying to keep Mr. Harrington's work confidential, as he is now employed at Boeing where the B-29 is still top secret.
48) Coming home
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Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 48
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Polio strikes one of the Harrington children, while everyone awaits the news of an older brother, hoping he will return safely after the war.
