A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.

A sixteen-year-old boy relates his discovery of the Pearl of Heaven and his near-fatal encounter with the feared sea monster, Manta Diablo.

Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.

A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured.

Próxima á las costas de California se encuentra una escarpada roca conocida con el nombre de La isla de San Nicolás ... Cuenta la historia que, en esta isla y a comienzos del pasado siglo, una muchacha india pasó dieciocho largos años viviendo en completa soledad. Esta novela es el relato de su hazaña. Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast.

A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the Californians and Americans.

Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734.

As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.