The life of Henri, a quiet, sickly boy who has grown up behind abbey walls, changes forever when he is befriended by Micah, a joyful, undisciplined street urchin who joins the choir at St. Luc's in 1348, just before France is stricken by the Plague.
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
A group of scientists, having learned how to travel through time, enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world.
Discusses the causes, events, and aftermath of the revolution that began in 1789 with the overthrow of the monarchy and ended ten years later with the rise of the Napoleonic dictatorship.
Recounts the 1827 journey of a young giraffe named Belle, a gift from the Pasha of Egypt to King Charles X of France, as she makes her way by boat and land to Paris, accompanied by her devoted caretaker, Atir.
Eleven-year-old Jimmy Coates is in France with friends and family, hiding from NJ7, the British secret intelligence agency that designed and programmed him, when he learns that there is another genetically-programmed assassin--a new enemy whose mission is to return Jimmy to London.
