In 1745 Amos, a church mouse, leaves his home to find a better place to live. He ends up with…
Benjamin Franklin and becomes his confidant and traveling companion. When Franklin dies, many writers extol his achievements, but Amos decides to set the record straight with his own accounts. For grades 5-8
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The title piece, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in April 1861, tells the story of an artist living in…
one of the early industrial towns of America and portrays the deprivation of the mill hands and their families. Also included are "The Wife's Story," "Anne," and a biographical sketch of Rebecca Harding Davis. These describe the lives of women constrained by society and by their own senses of duty