New Releases by F. N. Monjo

Marty Muskrat is a scaredy-rat. He''s scared of riding bikes, he''s scared of climbing trees, and he''s scared of swinging on ropes. When Marty''s class goes to Funland Park, his mom writes him a note excusing him from the rides, but his friends convince him to put aside his fears. With their help he discovers there are only three kinds of scared—going fast, getting bumped, and climbing to amazing heights—and he can conquer every one! Full of gentle humor and warmth, this is an exuberant story about learning to try new things.

When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the underground railroad.

An easy-to-read fictional account of the adventures of the Roosevelt children while their father was President.

The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller''s house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party -- or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed?

A 13-year-old cabin boy describes his first voyage aboard a Yankee trading vessel, bound for China during the 1820''s, carrying furs, silver, ginseng, sandalwood, and opium.

A story about pilgrims in Holland.

Joanna Hale recounts the events of 1776 as she and her family follow the activities of her brother Nathan in the Continental Army.

Nine-year-old Ellen Wayles Randolph describes her relationship with her grandfather, Thomas Jefferson.

A young Quaker boy relates how he eludes the ships of both the British and the rebels while sailing to Nantucket with supplies.

An account of the famous 1870 steamboat race down the Mississippi between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee, as told by a boy on board the Natchez.

As she sails on her father''s ship from New York to China in the early nineteenth century, sixteen-year-old Kitty describes in her journal the places she sees, the events occurring in them, and the romantic conclusion to the trip.

Relates in verse the exploits of the Dutch hero, Piet Heyn, whose capture of Spanish ships carrying valuable cargo was instrumental in Holland''s overthrow of Spanish rule in the seventeenth century.

The statue of King George III, erected in Battery Park after the repeal of the Stamp Tax, tells his version of the events leading to the American Revolution.

The Wadsworth children must abandon their plans for Halloween mischief to help prevent the King''s representative from taking away Connecticut Colony''s charter.

A dog who never growls at strangers meets a burglar in his house.

A dog who growls at strangers meets a burglar in his house.

A fictional account of a young English immigrant''s efforts to build America''s first automated spinning mill entirely from his memory of similar factories and machines in England.

A Pennsylvania Dutch farm boy describes the major activities of his family during each month of the year in the early nineteenth century.

Twelve-year-old Fred Grant relates what he saw when he accompanied his father, General Grant, on the campaign to capture Vicksburg.

When the pirate Henry Morgan attacks Panama, Brother John succeeds not only in hiding the church''s gold altar from the pirates but also in begging gold from them.

A frontier woman struggles to save her cabin and four children from the Indians.