Brief text and illustrations describe the day-to-day life and the major political, military, cultural, and social events in the major countries of Europe during the seventeenth century.
Against the odds, a peasant boy in seventeenth-century France strives to become one of the famous swordsmen known as the Musketeers, and the reader is asked to make choices throughout the story to determine the outcome.
An English translation of the nineteenth century French play about Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant swordsman who hides his love for his cousin Roxane out of fear she will reject him because of his looks.
Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth-century Caribbean city of Cartagena, works as a translator for a Jesuit priest who tends to newly-arrived slaves and, after working for a Jewish doctor in a leper colony and helping an Angolan boy and his mother escape, he realizes his true calling.
"When Greg and the Musketeers return to Paris and find the city under siege, they leap into action to prevent King Louis from being overthrown and history from being changed forever"--Provided by publisher.
Provides a cultural and historical context for the development of the United States during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes the first American colonies, the Jamestown settlement, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia, and more.
Provides information about the Salem Witch hunts and trial through the fictional description of the experiences of a young girl who is accused of being a witch.
