fiction

Fifty-three-year-old Charles Dickens, having escaped death during a train accident, momentarily meets a ghoulish figure named Drood and sets out with his friend Wilkie Collins into the nightmarish world of the slums and catacombs of London to uncover the mystery surrounding the figure.

In 1846 Concord, Massachusetts, sixteen-year-old Oliver Puckle, a reporter for his uncle's newspaper, investigates a woman's murder, aided by the tracking skills of his Algonquin friend, Charley Bigbow, and the deductive skills of Henry David Thoreau.

In 1433, fourteen-year-old Giovanna Cenami falls in love with a mysterious stranger employed by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, but when she defies her father, refuses to marry a wealthy family friend, and elopes with her love, herreputation, her family's honor, and her very life are at stake.

Simple text and illustrations describe the deeds of the Spanish knight from Castile known for his defeat of the Moors.

In an effort to bolster his small, struggling resident theatre, Will Bartlett invites the cast of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" to his country farm to prepare for their roles, but his money-making scheme backfires with comical consequences.

Tells the early life of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes from his education at Ptolemy's Museum in Alexandria to his home in Syracuse, as he gains fame and fortune as a royal engineer.

A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion.

Tells the story of the short-lived, bloody rebellion of slaves in Southhampton, Virginia, in August, 1831, as seen through the eyes of the instigator, Nat Turner.

Sebastien relates the life of Marie Antoinette as she goes from being a teenager devoted to him, her pug dog, to becoming the Queen of France and mother to two children.