historical fiction

"Second World War is over, and eleven-year-old Rachel and her family are determined to find a country where they can build a new life. They have decided to leave Europe on board the Exodus, a ship smuggling 4,500 Jewish refugees to their biblical homeland, know as Palestine"--Back cover.

Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I, he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.

As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon go in search of Isabel's little sister Ruth, who has been enslaved in the South for five years, but they are closely pursued by Curzon's owner, the awful Master Bellingham.

Twelve-year-old Patrick leaves Belfast, and his schoolwork, to be a steward on the Titanic, but when a wealthy passenger arranges to tutor him, Patrick finds himself in association with thieves.

Seventeen-year-old Natalie Stewart becomes obsessed with a painting of handsome British Lord Denbury in New York City in 1882, even though she has the disquieting feeling that details of the work keep changing, while Denbury, his soul trapped by dark magic in the painting, tries to lure Natalie to join him and free him from his curse.

"Bob the railway dog was everyone's friend in the early days of the Australian railroad."--OCLC.

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

"...[a] newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay, a rich and multilayered portrayal of life in 1930s Harlem world..."--Provided by publisher.

Seaman, the Newfoundland dog belonging to Meriwether Lewis, keeps an account of their adventures during the journey to the Pacific.

In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.