Rebecca Caudill

A Newbery Honor Book: During the Revolutionary War, a courageous pioneer girl fights for freedom When thirteen-year-old Stephanie Venable moves with her family from North Carolina to a four-hundred-acre homestead in Kentucky, she knows they're in for a great adventure. The family sells whatever belongings they can't fit in their covered wagon, and begin the long journey west. But Stephanie has brought something special with her, an apple seed from...

For a doll contest at a party, a little girl chooses to enter a doll that seems least likely to win a prize, but it does win a very special one.

A little girl finds her first year in one-room school as exciting as she hoped.