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Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, and even after the professor has a fatal heart attack while at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return until the day the dog dies. Based on a true story.

An introduction to the Civil War battle of Morris Island, South Carolina, during which Sergeant William H. Carney became the first African American to earn a Congressional Medal of Honor by preserving the flag.

Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies.

Examines a day in the life of a colonial soldier through the story of Stephen Wells, a minuteman who is called to participate in the Battle of Lexington, the first clash of the Revolutionary War.

Examines a day in the life of a colonial cabinetmaker through the story of William Smith, a Rhode Island craftsman who runs a busy shop during the time of the French and Indian War.

Time-traveling twins Liz and Lenny use their grandmother's magic hat to go back to 1773 and participate in the Boston Tea Party.

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

Relates the history of the colony of New York from its founding by the Dutch in 1609 to statehood in 1788.

Presents an account of Cartier's life and explorations and examines their impact on history and the world.