Dan Andreasen

A simple hug can make anyone, or anything, feel better.

Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family have new adventures as the frontier outpost of Brookfield, Wisconsin, grows into a bustling town.

When her friend Nellie, the servant girl from next door, does not show up for ice skating as usual, Samantha is afraid that Nellie will not come to her party because she cannot afford to bring presents. Includes a section on ice skating in the early 1900s.

Although she is tired of the responsibility of being the oldest sister, Felicity realizes how much her family means to her when a carriage accident puts her pregnant mother in danger. Includes a section on babies in the late 1700s.

"At the age of 16, Anne Shirley may be very nearly an adult... but she is still every bit as imaginative and impulsive as she was when she first arrived on Prince Edward Island. Having found a new family and lifelong friends among the people of Avonlea, she now embarks on the challenges of becoming a school teacher and raising two younger orphans. Anne's hotheadedness continues to land her in scrapes in this timeless and heartwarming sequel to Anne...

In its "old, old, old familiar way, " an "endless ribbon" of birds, with its noise and germs, flies over a town, until the townspeople decide to do something about it.

This book tells what it was like to live in the days of the knights during the Middle Ages.

An abridged version of the adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man.

The abridged adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.