MacColl, Michaela

"The coming-of-age story of twelve-year-old Ming who moves from 1870s Shanghai to America. Based on a true story, it has themes of immigration and dual heritage in post-Civil War America"--Provided by the publisher.

"Despite her father's warnings that their tribe is always in danger, Casita, a ten-year-old Lipan Apache girl, has led a relatively peaceful life with her tribe in Mexico, doing her daily chores and practicing for her upcoming Changing Woman ceremony, in which she will officially become a woman of the tribe. But the peace is shattered when the U.S. Cavalry invades and brutally slaughters her people. Casita and her younger brother survive the attack, but are taken captive and sent to the Carlisle Indian School, a Pennsylvania boarding school that specializes in assimilating Native Americans into white American culture"--Amazon.com.

Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.

The young Jane Austen is not particularly interested in getting married, although she does find the mysterious Mr. Lefroy an intriguing possibility - but first she has to deal with the accusation that her cousin Eliza is a French spy, and solve a murder.

Young Emily and Charlotte Bront? solve a mystery.

"Eleven-year-old Eliza Scott isn't a slave, but she's not free, either. For one thing, her father, the famous Dred Scott, is suing his master for her family's freedom. But Eliza is also caught up in other overwhelming struggles-- a devastating cholera epidemic, the wrath of a rich and resourceful slave catcher, and the worst fire in St. Louis history. Will Eliza be willing and able to pay the price for freedom?"--OCLC.

Sixteen-year-old Liza becomes a lady's maid to Princess Victoria and finds that the gossipy world of the palace servants gives her the chance to determine her own fate and help Victoria become queen.

Young Emily and Charlotte Bront? investigate a possible connection between a series of local burglaries and rumors that a neighbor's death may not have been accidental.

Rory Fitzpatrick has always taken care of her sister, Violet, since their parents died and they were sent to live at the Sisters of Charity Foundling Hospital in New York, but when Rory discovers that the nuns plan on sending Violet to a family out West, Rory becomes determined to follow her.

When Emily Dickinson meets a young man who refuses to tell her his name she is intrigued, so when he is found dead in her family's pond in Amherst she is determined to discover his secret, no matter how dangerous it may prove to be.