Calkins Creek imprint: 47 books
Captain Mac
The Life of Donald Baxter MacMillan, Arctic Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
From 1908 until 1954, Donald Baxter MacMillan spent nearly 50 years exploring the Arctic—longer than anyone else. Growing up near the ocean, and orphaned by 12, MacMillan forged an adventurous life. Mary Morton Cowan focuses on the vital role MacMillan played in Robert Peary's 1908-09 North Pole...
Girl with a Camera
Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer: A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In this historical novel, noted writer Carolyn Meyer deftly captures the daring and passionate life of photographer Margaret Bourke-White. Growing up, young Peggy White was interested in snakes and caterpillars and other unfeminine things. She intended to become a herpetologist, but while she was still...
Blood Brother
Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Jonathan Daniels, a white seminary student from New Hampshire, traveled to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to help with voter registration of black residents. After the voting rights marches, he remained in Alabama, in the area known as “Bloody Lowndes,” an extremely dangerous area for white freedom fighters,...
by Michaela MacColl, Rosemary Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Eliza Scott isn’t quite a slave, but she’s not free either. She’s not a prisoner, but her family lives in a jail. Eliza, who attends a secret floating school on the Mississippi River because it’s illegal for her to read, says she understands how dangerous her situation is—but her parents know...
by Michaela MacColl
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Despite her father’s warnings that their tribe is always in danger, Casita, a twelve-year-old Lipan Apache girl, has led a relatively peaceful life with her tribe in Mexico, doing her daily chores and practicing for her upcoming Changing Woman ceremony, in which she will officially become a woman of...
by Michaela MacColl, Rosemary Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Twelve-year-old Rory and her little sister, Violet are, at least, living together in the Catholic Foundling Hospital in New York City. But in 1904 the hospital begins to send orphans to the Arizona Territory to be adopted by devout Catholic families. Too old to be adopted, Rory is desperate to find...
Diary of a Waitress
The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In 1926, droves of Americans traveled by train across the United States to visit the West. They ate at Harvey Houses, where thousands of well-trained waitresses provided first-class service. *Diary of a Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl *tells the first-person story of one spunky...
Girl with Brush and Canvas
Georgia O'Keefe, American Artist
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The life of artist Georgia O'Keeffe is revealed in this biographical novel -- from her childhood when she decided to be an artist, through her art education in Chicago and New York, to her eventual rise to fame in the American Southwest.
At the age of 12, Georgia O'Keeffe announced that she...
by Kathy Cannon Wiechman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
When Leander Jordan and Paul Settles enlist in the Union army, they each carry deep and dangerous secrets. And when they meet in a Union hospital, they begin to discover each other’s secrets and form a bond that will prove impossible to break. That bond will give them both the courage to survive...
Scar
A Revolutionary War Tale
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Sixteen-year-old Noah Daniels wants nothing more than to fight in George Washington’s Continental Army, but an accident as a child left him maimed and unable to enlist. He is forced to watch the Revolution from his family’s hard scrabble farm in Upstate New York—until a violent raid on his settlement...
Young Patriots
Inspiring Stories of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Major events of the American Revolution are brought to life in this collection of historical fiction that shows young people caught up in the dangers, hardships, and conflicts of America's fight for independence. A young girl proves her courage in Concord on April 19, 1775, and a young boy and his...
Bound by Ice
A True North Pole Survival Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In the years following the Civil War, “Arctic fever” gripped the American public, fueled by myths of a fertile, tropical sea at the top of the world. Several explorers attempted to find a route to the North Pole, but none succeeded. Bound by Ice follows the journey of George Washington De Long...
Now or Never!
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history—George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness...
by Marilyn Cram Donahue
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Set in the summer of 1939, this sensitive, coming-of-age historical novel explores the complex nature of justice as a young girl struggles to stand up for what she knows is right, even when her community wants to turn the other way.
It’s the calm before the storm of World War II in small-town...