1775-1865

"The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there"--OCLC.

"Explores love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

Investigates the history of African American slavery and racism in New York City between 1626 and 1863 and traces the effects of racial discrimination on the community.

"The protagonist of this historical novel, which is set in the Shetland Islands and also New York City around 1840, is Christian Robertson, a crofter and son of a crofter (small, struggling tenant farmer). When Christian's brother frames him for the theft of a bag of coins, Christian must leave home and embark on a journey to return the coins and clear his name"--Provided by publisher.

In 1863, twelve-year-old Danny and his older sister Kathleen arrive in New York City to start a new life, but they soon find themselves navigating through the same prejudices and struggles they experienced in Ireland.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

The Flashback Four are coerced by a secret government organization, NOYB, to travel to July 1804 Weehawken, New Jersey, to witness the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

When his sharecropper father is killed, leaving the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie makes a deal to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of fugitives.