Peachtree Publishing Company: 84 books

A charming story of family and a day on the water Out on Blue Lake with his parents Old Goat and Turkey, Small Pig is ready for an adventure. “I’m Captain Commander!” Small Pig said. “Aye aye, Captain Small Pig!” yawned Old Goat. “You are in charge of this boat!” But Small Pig soon tires...

The year is 1852. Ten-year-old Emma Wright and her mama have boarded the Sally May for a steamboat journey that will take them up the Mississippi River, but nothing could prepare them for the danger and adventure ahead. When concern over her beloved pony, Licorice Twist, lures Emma below to the main...

Independent-minded Sam does not like the fact that she has to spend a month of her summer vacation at her grandparents’ place. Twelve-year-old Sam adores her grandmother, but Grandma will be at work most of the time during Sam’s visit, leaving Sam with the Colonel, her prickly grandfather. Sam’s...

A mystery series based on a page from American history, featuring a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solvers Everyone knows that workers are using dynamite to blast an eight-mile train tunnel through the Cascade Mountains. But everyone also knows that explosives aren’t allowed inside...

This dramatic autobiography of Eleanor Ramrath Garner reveals the daily struggles of growing up as a young American caught in World War II Berlin. During the Great Depression, when she is nine, Eleanor’s family moves from her beloved America to Germany, where her father has been offered a good job....

On February 20, 1962, as millions of Americans waited anxiously, astronaut John Glenn blasted off in his rocket ship, Friendship 7, and became the first American to orbit the Earth. Although the risks of such a mission for Friendship 7 were well known, no one including Glenn knew the peril he was...

After a summer cooped up in his family’s store selling bait, tackle, and soft drinks to tourists, fourteen-year-old Chase finally gets a chance to go on his first solo geocaching adventure. Using his GPS in the foothills of the Arizona White Mountains, he uncovers the geocache—a small metal box—hidden...

As the son of famous Black Jack Valera, the best whaler on the eastern seaboard, thirteen-year-old Lucky Valera led a charmed life at sea, until his father dies and his estranged older half-brother, Fortuna, kidnaps him. Lucky’s hopes of joining the crew of the whaling ship, Nightbird, are dashed...

When Jameson is kidnapped and taken to sea, he must learn how to survive. Jameson Cooper always assumed he would grow up to be a printer like his father. But after the death of his parents, he is wrongly accused of stealing bread and sentenced to indentured servitude, changing his fortunes forever....

Justin struggles with conflicting choices and important decisions about family, loyalty, and responsibility as he decides what his path in life will be. Justin Martin is almost fifteen, and up until now his life has seemed woefully predictable—barely getting by in school, taking the bus home to...

This 1934 Pulitzer Prize winner tells the story of a pair of young newlyweds in antebellum rural Georgia. The Pulitzer Prize-winner Lamb in His Bosom tells the story of Cean and Lonzo, a young couple who begin their married lives two decades before the Civil War in a land where nature is hostile,...

Claude is no ordinary dog – he leads an extraordinary life! Claude and his best friend, Sir Bobblysock (who is both a sock and very bobbly), go to the City for the very first time. They go shopping, visit a museum, foil a robbery, and heal an entire hospital waiting room full of patients. All in...

This satisfying story explores the powerful impact of our actions on the world around us. When his father takes a new job in Massachusetts, Ben Moroney must leave behind his best friend Tony, a western banded gecko named Lenny, and worst of all, the Arizona desert home he has loved and explored. Ben’s...

It is 1804, the year that Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery set out for their now-legendary exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, departing St. Louis to travel across the continent to the Pacific Ocean and back. This fictionalized biography of Lewis and Clark’s journey...