Best Selling Books by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Grade Level 7.4, Book # 1, Points 9.

This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.

A biography for young people of the man who renounced wealth and position to become a Quaker, and who became governor and proprietor of the new colony of Pennsylvania.

Four absorbing stories of different heroines, separated by years of time and united by the Carolina colony.

Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Reprint.

A road''s a kind of holy thing, said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That''s why it''s a good work to keep a road in repair, like giving alms to the poor or tending the sick. It''s open to the sun and wind and rain. It brings all kinds of people and all parts of England together. And it''s home to a minstrel, even though he may happen to be sleeping in a castle.

Sixteen year old Page, youngest in the MacNeil family in Richmond, Virginia, has always felt overshadowed by the others in the family.