fiction

When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.

Christopher Columbus sails to the New World and returns home with seeds that grow into a marvelous plant.

Gerald, a nine-year-old pursuing his studies in a monastery, takes part in a grand reception for the visiting Emperor Charlemagne and hears tales about the changes that ruler is making in his growing empire. Sections of the story alternate with brief factual information on aspects of life in medieval Europe under Charlemagne.

The ghost of Willie, President Abraham Lincoln's older son, transports Lindsey back to his own time, where she sees and hears many things from both sides of the Civil War. Includes passages from contemporary documents, a glossary, biographical sketches, and a bibliography.

David Franco, a skeptical, young scholar at Chicago's Newberry Library, embarks on an adventure that takes him across continents while he races against time to discover and collect a legendary artifact, but while he finds aid from a beautiful Florentine, Franco is pursued by assassins and, ultimately, must face his own worst nightmare.

While working on a last-minute President's Day assignment Max accidently triggers a time machine and brings young Abraham Lincoln into the 1990s. Abe is a pretty cool guy, but Max is afraid that if he can't find a way to send Abe back the entire course of history will change.

In 1264, Jean of Toulouse, a young French student and friar accused of heresy by the Inquisition, is sent to Oxford to spy on the scholarly monk, Roger Bacon, who is suspected of being a heretic for his advanced scientific ideas.

Presents facts and fiction that explore the mystery surrounding the murder of Shakespearean-era playwright Christopher Marlowe.

Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.