For your young budding historian:

• Rainbow on the Road by Esther Forbes, 1954 - This is a tale of a man (or two men, depending on how you look at it) and a legend.
• Whaling Boy by Peter Freuchen, 1958 - This exciting adventure story is vivid with the sights, sounds, smells, and action of a whaler's life. Derived from his own boyhood experiences, it is unique in authenticity and atmosphere.
• The Happy Hollisters and the Old Clipper Ship by Jerry West, 1956 - A rain storm and an unexpected guest bring this new mystery into the Hollister's lives when a lightning struck tree branch falls on a car in front of their home in Shoreham.
• The Basket Maker and the Spinner by Beatrice Siegel, 1987 - Beatrice Siegel's book looks back to the quiet time when Indian women made baskets and colonial women spent long hours at the spinning wheel.
• Stormalong Goes a-Whaling by Don Steers, 1966. - Stormalong is a great hero in the folk lore of the sea. His adventures and great feats of strength compare with those of the famous Paul Bunyan in the lumber camps of the Northwest.
• The Onion Maidens, adapted by A.K. Roche, 1968 - Most of the young ladies of old New England spent their days gathering flowers and buying ribbons and laces. The girls of Wethersfield, however, were expected to weed the onion patches for which their town was famous.
• The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1941 - A heartwarming and poignant novella about Carol Bird, a compassionate, bedridden girl born on Christmas Day.