fiction

The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.

Charlemagne's daughter must call on her own magic and the power of a young Breton and a special elephant to save her father from a deadly Byzantine spell.

Seventeen-year-old "Hank" can't remember his identity or past when he wakes up in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's "Walden" as his only possession. Hank slowly starts to figure out where he's from and why he ran away as memories begin coming back.

Seventeen-year-old Jack London journeys to the Yukon Territory in search of gold but what he finds is kidnapping, slavery, and supernatural beasts that want to use Jack's personal demons against him.

A fictional account of the lifelong friendship between Willow, a young Chinese girl, and Pearl, the daughter of Christian missionaries who would become the celebrated author, Pearl S. Buck. Young Pearl and Willow become friends in a small southern China town and share their experiences of growing up, love, and motherhood. When civil war erupts, Pearl is forced to leave the country while Willow's "imperialist" ties threaten her safety in Mao's regime. Though a world apart, the two women remain friends.

On the day that Maya and her father arrive in India from Canada to bring her mother's ashes to their final resting place, Indira Gandhi is assassinated. In the chaos Maya loses her father and she must trust a young man, Sandeep, to help her find her father.

Sixteen-year-old Molly Fraser works as a nurse with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War to earn a salary to help her family survive in nineteenth-century England.

Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty years to the Bront? sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.

A novel based on the life of a prominent medieval woman, Dame Margery Kempe, from the perspective of her maid, Johanna. Dame Margery feels little empathy for the hard life of her maid, which only worsens when they begin a pilgrimage to Rome. On the road Dame Margery is in constant conflict with the other pilgrims and finally turns her back on them all, including Johanna. Abandoned in a foreign land, Johanna must find a way to Rome.

Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never been in a synagogue or practiced religion, but to everyone around him he is a Jew. Longing to prove his worth, he starts taking boxing lessons from champion boxer and German national hero Max Schmeling. As a skilled cartoonist, he's never before had an interest in boxing, but as Max's apprentice, Karl finds both his boxing skills and art flourishing. When Nazi violence against the Jews heightens, he must balance his dream of becoming a great boxer with his obligation to protect his family.