history

Describes life on the "home front" during World War II, when children collected newspapers, movies were filled with propaganda, working women became commonplace, and necessities were rationed.

A history of the colony of Virginia, which originally offered the opportunity to escape England's class system and poor economy but quickly developed its own social strata.

Discusses life in ancient Greece, including citizenship in the city-state, family life, physical training and athletic competitions, and religious beliefs and worship.

Recounts the life story of the Native American woman, Sacajawea, who was taken as a slave when she was a girl, then later sold as a wife to a French fur trader, and who eventually guided Lewis and Clark as they explored the western United States.

Presents factual information about Ancient Egypt with accompanying mystery story for readers to solve using those facts.

Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.

In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.

Describes the job of the packhorse librarians, who were responsible for taking books to people in rural Kentucky in the 1930's on horseback.

In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.