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|  | | Billy Boy, the Sunday Soldier of the 17th Maine
Based on a true person and true event. Billy Laird, a mentally challenged young man, musters in the 17th Maine. Frightened and unsure, he deserts his post in Maryland, meets a runaway slave, and with the help of Quakers and the Underground Railroad, finds his way to Maine. Billy is captured and arrested in Maine and faces a court martial for desertion.
What happens to Billy is a matter of historical record.
| |  | | Railroad to the Moon, Elijah's Story
A story in itself, "Railroad to the Moon" is a compelling sequel to "Billy Boy." Elijah's story is woven around a Maine historical figure,Oren Cheney,a Freewill Baptist and founder of Bates College whose actions to solve Elijah's dilemma mirror his historically accurate role in post Civil War Maine.
span style="font-size: larger">span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Trapped between new-found freedom and a promise, runaway slave Elijah is led by hands both seen and unseen to a destiny of which he could only dream. /span>/span>
| |  | | Remember Me, Tomah Joseph's Gift to Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt spent his childhood summers on Campobello Island, New Brunswick. Ours is a story of the friendship between young Franklin and a Passamaquoddy Elder who teaches him how to paddle a canoe, shares Native American culture and lore, and ultimately gives Franklin a gift of a birchbark canoe.
| |  | | Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride
A passenger on an electric trolley in 1914, Teddy Roosevelt has a special moment with a young farm girl from Maine.
b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">span lang="EN" style="color:#222222;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Millie Thayer is a headstrong farmer's daughter who chases her dreams in a way you would expect a little girl nicknamed "Spitfire" would--running full tilt and with her eyes on the stars. Dreaming of leaving farm life, working in the city, and fighting for women's right to vote, Millie imagines flying away on a magic carpet. One day, that flying carpet shows up in the form of an electric trolley that cuts across | |  | | The Canoe Maker
Creative non-fiction about Native American David Moses Bridges, master canoe maker
p style="margin: 0px;">span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Young Tobias is on a quest with his father, David Moses Bridges, the Tribe’s master canoe maker. Together they go deep into the Maine woods to find the perfect birch and to gather spruce roots, cedar and spruce gum to build a canoe in the ‘old ways.’ In this magical tale, David weaves Native American storytelling into the ancient art and spirituality of canoe making, including the heart-rending, mythological legend of the partridge, the first canoe m | |  | | The Old Mainer and the Sea
The Old Mainer and the Sea, about a dory fisherman, is an allegorical tale about the circular nature of hope and deliverance.
span style="font-size: larger;">Eben York goes out fishing one day, rowing six miles from his inland home towards the harbor on the mainland, hauling in cod as he goes. But a porpoise tangles his lines, fog rolls in, and an accident leads to a broken oar. Lonely, tired, and adrift, Eben is almost ready to give in to the embrace of the sea, when rescue comes in an unexpected form./span>
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