juvenile fiction

After his best friend is shot and killed, fourteen-year-old Langston borrows his science teacher's time machine and travels from Los Angeles in 2010 to Oxford, England, in 1278 to try to prevent Roger Bacon from publishing his formula for gunpowder.

The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration.

A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of his toes to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.

When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

Between 1933 and 1935, a young Italian American girl living in North Adams, Massachusetts, corresponds with President Franklin Roosevelt about the conditions in her town, Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, and her own family's activities.

A fictional biography of Abraham Lincoln, in graphic novel format, from the time he left Illinois to assume the Presidency to his assassination and funeral. Includes factual information about Lincoln, his family, several well-known historical figures, and the Civil War.

Fourteen-year-old Quaker Joshua Whitaker assists Harriet Tubman when runaway slaves journey through Philadelphia using the Underground Railroad.

Worried about having left the overly generous Brother Juniper in charge of their chapel when they went out to preach, the other friars are not prepared for what they find upon their return.

In 1903, a group of children on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, dream of flying and witness the first flight of the Wright brothers. Includes a chronology of milestones in the history of flight.

While visiting Iowa in 1893, the Czech composer Anton Dvo??k hears the song of a scarlet tanager and is inspired to create a new piece of music.