historical fiction

During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.

In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.

A novel about a young Jewish girl in Budapest who suffers worse and worse conditions under Nazi rule until hope arrives in the form of a foreign man who risks his own life to save others. Based on the real-life efforts of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved up to 100,000 lives during the Second World War.

In the late 16th century, fifteen-year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia, where he helps to establish relations with the Indians.

The heroic young D'Artagnan and his noble compatriots Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are pitted against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked woman, Lady de Winter.

Presents an illustrated story about a runaway slave and the sounds and actions of the animals in the forest that seem to guide him along his path to freedom.

Katie Rose, taken in by the Stevenses after the death of her parents, dreams of escaping the hard work and dreariness of her life by going to live with her uncle in the west, and when her caretaker leaves her Katie tries to make the trip on her own.

H.F lived in London during the devastating damage of the plague rolled through and here he recounts the deadly events that took shape between 1664 and 1665.

Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.

The Blue Flame, sparked at the moment of Christ's death, is in danger of falling into the wrong hands yet again as northern enemies draw near, and as a new religious crusade begins, the love between lifelong friends Raimon, son of a Cathar weaver, and Yolanda, daughter of a Catholic count, is threatened.