historical fiction

In Warsaw, Poland, in 1942, Mira faces impossible decisions after learning that the Warsaw ghetto is to be "liquidated," but a group of young people are planning an uprising against their Nazi captors.

A slave child in Kansas in 1856, Henry Shackleford is taken in by abolitionist John Brown after Brown confronts and has a heated argument with Shackleford's master. Now privy to Brown's movements and the anti-slavery efforts of his small militia, Shackleford keeps his head down to stay alive right up until the moment Brown launches his doomed and fatal assault on Harper's Ferry.

In the Indiana wilderness in 1821, twelve-year-old Nelly Vandorn and her older brother hold fast to their rough frontier ways when their father brings home a fancy new city wife not long after burying their mother.

Although widowed in her early teens, Margaret Beaufort, the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant, undermine the support for Richard III, and ultimately ensure that her only son, Henry Tudor, triumphs as King of England.

On a three-day stagecoach ride to the big city of Albany, during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Caroline is fascinated by the other travelers, including a charming magician and a beautiful young woman with a sad past, but when Caroline's important package for her father disappears, she must unmask a thief.

During a drought in the early 1900s, a large loving African American family finds a delicious way to earn the money they need to save their family farm.

Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.

Determined to focus on work rather than books, as his father had, twelve-year-old Patrick Waters leaves Belfast as a steward on the Titanic, but the very wealthy Harry Widener arranges to tutor him, drawing Patrick into association with thieves seeking Harry's very rare edition of Francis Bacon's Essays.

Marty Belluci is excited when his teacher asks the class to write letters to famous people. Marty chooses Napoleon, even though he's dead. Luck is with Marty when his grandfather tells him there is a secret courier service at his nursing home. The service delivers letters to people in other times. Gramps mails Marty's letter and soon Marty receives a return message from the one and only Napoleon!.

Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-yearold Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.