Books with author Alan Garinger

Orphaned at thirteen, pioneer Joshua Sims joins a survey crew helping to build Michigan Road in order to pay for his family's northern Indiana homestead. When the surveyors' ink supply is accidentally lost in the Tippecanoe River, Sims is ordered to travel alone to Detroit, Michigan, to obtain more. Traveling by foot, boat, and horseback, Sims meets runaway slaves, Native Americans, canal builders, and other frontier figures as he journeys to Fort Wayne, across Lake Erie, and along the Sauk Trail in Michigan. Sims's encounters force him to re-evaluate his beliefs about the people in the rapidly changing land he now calls home.

This book was nominated for the Young Hoosier Reader Award by the Indiana Library Federation and is considered a modern classic. It is historically and culturally sensitive and gives a thrilling account of a peasant boy who becomes an artist. The story is loosely based on a German legend about a mysterious ring in a wrought iron fence around a fountain in Nurnberg, Germany. The stunning illustrations are by Claire Ewart, a nationally recognized illustrator of books for young people.

Orphaned at thirteen, pioneer Joshua Sims joins a survey crew helping to build Michigan Road in order to pay for his family's northern Indiana homestead. When the surveyors' ink supply is accidentally lost in the Tippecanoe River, Sims is ordered to travel alone to Detroit, Michigan, to obtain more. Traveling by foot, boat, and horseback, Sims meets runaway slaves, Native Americans, canal builders, and other frontier figures as he journeys to Fort Wayne, across Lake Erie, and along the Sauk Trail in Michigan. Sims's encounters force him to re-evaluate his beliefs about the people in the rapidly changing land he now calls home.

In a puff of smoke and a flash of light, a genie appears from the computer to whisk the e-Kidz off to cyberspace to play games for ever and ever! It may be their wish come true, but this is no ordinary game. The genie gives them a dangerous mission: Clean up the internet. The e-Kidz head off on a thrilling surf-ride across the super-highway where they will encounter such perils as a swarm of bugs and cookies, evil popups, chat-room predators and viruses, each in the form of fearsome monsters and super-villains.

In a puff of smoke, a genie appears from the computer and whisks the e-Kidz off into cyberspace...to play games forever! It's their wish come true, but this is no ordinary game. The genie gives them a dangerous mission: clean up the internet. The journey take them to the World Wide Web where they will face the evil web-monster known as the Web-Master in the final showdown. Aimed at the 6-9 age-group, eKidz In Cyberspace tackles internet safety in an interesting and exciting way.

In a puff of smoke, a genie appears from the computer and whisks the e-Kidz off into cyberspace...to play games forever! It's their wish come true, but this is no ordinary game. The genie gives them a dangerous mission: clean up the internet. The journey take them to the World Wide Web where they will face the evil web-monster known as the Web-Master in the final showdown. Aimed at the 10-14 age-group, eKidz: Mission to Cyberspace tackles internet safety in an interesting and exciting way.