Max's gang
Frank Baer
Five German children make their way home from Czechoslovakia across the war-torn countryside of 1945, enduring hardship and danger in the desperate hope of being reunited with their families in Berlin.
Read Time: ~3.1 hr
Blue Creek Farm
by Carroll Thomas (2001)
About this book
In the late 1850s, with her mother dead and her brother riding for the Pony Express, Matty often finds that she must face all the dangers of pre-Civil War Kansas alone on the family farm.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreBlue Creek Farm Lead Character
Themes & Moods
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