juvenile fiction

Seventeen-year-old Lyn, working in a reconstructed colonial settlement in Nova Scotia, suddenly finds herself transported back to 1744, when the French inhabitants are at war with England.

In China during World War II, a young boy makes a daring rescue attempt to free his father, a captured prisoner of the Japanese army.

With the help of fairies, Seamus the farmer and his scrawny goat win top honors at a festival in Killorglin, Ireland, and receive a lifetime supply of books.

Life is pretty good for Justice. His mom and his twin sister Charity are always there for him, and he has fun at his inner-city school. Then Trey and his mean friends start picking on him. Soon they go after Charity too. Justice is afraid to tell anyone - afraid it'll make things worse.

Thirty-two men answer Colonel William Travis's plea for help and cross enemy lines to help defend the Alamo in 1836.

Short stories revealing various aspects of life among the Serers in the West African village of Bikole.

In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.

A young boy in pre-Roman England becomes chieftain of his tribe and learns just how much he must sacrifice for his people.

Gabe gets lost in the Great Pyramid, realizes he isn't alone, and wonders if the curse of the mummy's tomb is real.

Rachel and her friends, both black and white, must reunite the adults of Catesville, Mississippi after a visit by a group of civil rights activists in 1964.