Elizabeth Yates
6) Nearby
Author
Description
This story-set in a rural New England village called Nearby-is brought to life through the eyes of Mary, the new teacher who devotes herself to changing prejudices and lifting her students' minds and hearts to a higher place. With beautiful description, award-winning author Elizabeth Yates weaves a complex plot packed with endearing characters and powerful messages.
10) We, the people
Author
Publisher
Published by the Countryman Press for] the Regional Center for Educational Training, Hanover, N.H
Pub. Date
[1974]
Description
The mother of a young family in Temple, New Hampshire, manages the homestead while her husband fights at Bunker Hill and at Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
The John Day Company
Description
"Each spring for hundreds of years, the herons have returned to Chilham, England, but only now have they become important to Kent. Their departure this fall marks the beginning of a new life for his mother, who has closed her heart to love, and for Kent, who thinks of himself as Nobody."
16) On that night
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1969
Description
Several people attending a simple Christmas Eve service and curiously touched by a legend about that special evening.
17) New Hampshire
Author
Series
Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1969]
Description
An introduction to "the Granite State," the first of the thirteen colonies to declare its independence.
18) Hue and Cry
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1953]
Description
Jared Austin, staunch member of the mutual protection society that defends his 1830s New Hampshire community against thieves, tries to temper justice with mercy when his deaf daughter Melody befriends a young Irish immigrant who has stolen a horse.
