juvenile fiction

At the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish-Americans Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live with Klondy's father, a gold-miner who left for the mines when she was just a baby. Based on events in the life of Klondy Nelson.

Young Cleopatra, not believing herself to be as beautiful as her sisters, decides to concentrate on her studies instead--a decision that proves valuable when her ability to understand the Egyptian language allows her to uncover a plot against her father, the king.

A bilingual presentation of the Costa Rican legend about a greedy pirate and his bout with the devil.

Seventeen-year-old Abbey knows that Caspian is her destiny and theirs is a bond that transcends even death, but as Abbey finally learns the full truth about the dark fate that links her to Caspian and ties them both to the town of Sleepy Hollow, she suddenly has some very difficult choices to make.

In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, Shorty, a poor, fifteen-year-old gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a hospital and as he grows weaker, he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in 1804.

Presents the true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who, in 1960, became the first African-American student to attend her elementary school in New Orleans.

A fictionalized biography of Lucy Terry Prince, an eighteenth-century slave who sought education and legal redress for her family through the courts.

As the armies of Lancaster and York clash in the War of the Roses, Dick Shelton attempts to outwit his scheming guardian, Sir Daniel Brackley.

Presents Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 biblical epic "The Ten Commandments," filmed in Egypt and the Sinai, which follows the life of Moses.

While on a field trip to study native plants, Kenneth and Aleesa are transported to Hawaii in the 1890s, where they see first-hand the final days of the reign of Queen Liliuokalani and learn about native rights.