juvenile fiction

During the Revolutionary War, a young woman named Deborah Sampson disguises herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army.

In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

In 1774, twelve-year-old Jonah becomes a pupil of Nathan Hale, who inspires him to question his beliefs about the impending revolution, and two years later, Jonah makes a decision that leads to Nathan's execution.

Imagines what might have happened to a dog befriended by author Jack London during the 1897 Yukon gold rush, and that served as the model for Buck from his novel "Call of the Wild.".

During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.

A fictionalized account of the author's years growing up in Great Neck, New York, with his father, a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, during the turbulent civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s when African-Americans were struggling to attain equality.

Gatty is given the chance of a lifetime when she is asked to accompany a family on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and the journey, though dangerous, quickly changes Gatty's life forever.

Fourteen-year-old Nebi is the sole survivor of a vicious attack and must find Piankhy, ruler of the African kingdom of Kush, to help him save his kingdom from destruction.

A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.

When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.