Twenty tales taken from folksongs reflecting American history, e.g. "Yankee Doodle," "John Henry," "The Blue-Tail Fly," and "Frankie and Johnnie"

Hear the Wind Blow: American Folk Songs Retold

SANDERS, Scott R.

Children's Books

Atheneum

Seventeen-year-old Eli Jackson and a thirty-one-year-old lawyer in early-nineteenth-century Ohio set out to find a murderer who might be a "Bigfoot."

Bad Man Ballad

Gathers selections from Audubon's letters and journals, descriptions of the characteristics and behavior of birds, and anecdotes concerning his travels

Audubon Reader

AUDUBON, John James

Literature & Fiction

Indiana University Press

Thirteen-year-old Mooch runs afoul of the repressive authorities controlling her floating domed city, by helping an old engineer build realistic robot animals and by seeking her spiritual roots with the wild animals left on the outside.

The Engineer of Beasts

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Orchard Books

Warm As Wool

When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm

Demco Media

The Floating House

Place Called Freedom

After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life and over the years they are joined by so many blacks that they start their own town.

Crawdad Creek

Animals

Wilderness Plots: Tales About the Settlement of the American Land

Wilderness Plots is made up of fifty brief tales that chronicle the period of settlement of the Ohio Valley, roughly 1780 to 1850. Beginning with the discovery of the Ohio River by La Salle and ending with the Civil War, this region was the West, the exciting new frontier. Written with the power and compression of folklore, these tales bring to life the unmemorialized common folks who carried out this epic adventure. In these pages, you will meet preachers and profiteers, the boy who saved Cleveland, a love-crossed carpenter, generals and journalists, a hermit and a lawyer, farmers and bone collectors, lovers, layabouts, and a host of other high-spirited characters the kind of people who, in all ages, have made history. These stories, which condense entire lifetimes into single paragraphs, come out of a distinctive tradition in American literature. For this book reflects the experience of settling our entire wild, raucous, dangerous, and glorious continent. Our ancestors went through very much the same trials everywhere, from New England to California and Alaska. They wrestled with the land and its inhabitants for more than two centuries before there were any cities or industries to speak of, and since we have all been shaped by that prolonged wrestling, this encounter with the wilderness is one of the deepest, truest, and most abiding subjects in our literature.

Wilderness plots: Tales about the settlement of the American land

William Morrow and Company

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Hear the Wind Blow: American Folk Songs Retold

Bad Man Ballad

Audubon Reader

The Engineer of Beasts

The Engineer of Beasts

Warm As Wool

The Floating House

Place Called Freedom

Crawdad Creek

Wilderness plots: Tales about the settlement of the American land