One Sky Above Us

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. HarperCollins Publishers, $15.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-06-029119-8

Set in the mid 1800s, E. Cody Kimmel's One Sky Above Us, illus. by Scott Snow, picks up where To the Frontier the inaugural title in The Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill series left off. Now, Bill and his abolitionist family must fight for their land as pro-slavery forces seek to drive them off the Kansas territory. (Oct.)

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