Ellen Levine

A baby sea otter, separated from his mother by a storm, is rescued by a human who takes him to the Monterey Bay Aquarium to recover and learn how to take care of himself.

Tells you what it was like to be a pioneer and travel west to Oregon in the 1840s.

Told from a child's perspective, this book depicts the earthquake of 1906 that shattered San Francisco.

In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.

A 500 year old tree tells what it has seen as Austin, Texas grew from an Indian village to a modern city.

In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve-year-old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her parents lose their jobs and she is fired from the school newspaper.