history

As a young orphaned drummer boy in the Civil War, Josh Parrish joins the 20th Maine in time to be caught up in the battle for Little Round Top.

On orders from the King, the Sheriff of Nottingham seeks to capture the outlaw Robin Hood, but he finds him to be a tricky and elusive foe.

Focuses on the experiences of individuals in the Civil War through first-person narratives, from the perspective of both the North and the South, and speeches delivered before and during the conflict.

Recounts the story of Marie Antoinette and looks at what was happening all around the world in her time.

Profiles ten Union generals: Ambrose Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Halleck, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joseph Hooker, George McClellan, George Meade, Philip Sheridan, William T. Sherman, and George Henry Thomas.

When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.

In occupied Holland in 1944, thirteen-year-old Pieter becomes increasingly involved in the work of the Dutch Resistance even though he knows the risk of being discovered by the Nazi informer who lives in his village.

A discussion of the Civil War as experienced by children, based upon the diaries, journals, letters, and reminiscences of approximately 120 youngsters who were between the ages of four and sixteen when the conflict began.

Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.

A biography of the Roman general and statesman whose brilliant military leadership helped make Rome the center of a vast empire.