fiction

Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the "Golden Hind"--the ship of his cousin, explorer and pirate Francis Drake--on its three-year circumnavigation of the world.

Vini, a talented young woman in sixteenth-century Italy, hoping to win the approval of her artist father, finds romance and adventure when she enlists the aid of an apprentice in her father's studio to steal materials for her so she can practice her art. Based on the life of Renaissance artist Lavinia Fontana.

The reader's decisions control an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of an American businessman in Thailand.

In the fifth century B.C., twelve-year-old Susiana records in her diary her experiences as Esther's personal attendant in the palace of King Xerxes.

Colorful illustrations and simple text tell the story of China's Treasure Fleet during the fifteenth century under the command of Admiral Zheng He.

The boy king, Edward VI of England, and a poor boy accidentally change places.

A fictional account of the life of Theodora of Constantinople, who was an actress and a prostitute before becoming the empress of Rome and a saint in the Orthodox Church.

A fictional account of the life of Nell Gwynn, who rose from poverty to become an actress in the King's Company and finally the mistress of King Charles II of England.

The lives of three girls with royal Tudor blood are forced to deal with the consequences of their parents and their passion for gambling, and while sixteen-year-old Jane Grey is destined to reign over the English monarch, her sister Katherine is skilled at charming all the right people, and Lady Mary Grey strives to protect those she loves despite the cost.

A fictional account of the life of Marie Antoinette, discussing her childhood in Austria, her mother's political ambitions, and her marriage to an awkward teenage boy who would become the king of France.