fiction

Sent back in time to locate Harry Houdini, Jack and Annie end up getting into an argument that threatens their mission. As the time to meet Houdini nears, they have to find a way to patch up their relationship and continue to work together.

During the Tang dynasty, master painter Wu Daozi creates an extraordinary mural for the emperor.

Ten-year-old Matty is excited to see Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers take on the Boston Braves in 1947, but many of the fans are not happy to see an African-American player in the major league.

Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.

Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Sullivan, friends who write operas together, have a falling out when Mr. Sullivan refuses to compose music for yet another silly story, prompting Mr. Gilbert to try something completely new.

After her ballet class with Madame Rosa at the old theater, Ella Bella is transported into the fairy tale world of Sleeping Beauty.

A fictional diary of Princess Sophie, later named Catherine, from 1743 until 1745, when at age fifteen she is married to her second cousin Peter, Grand Duke of Russia, who will one day be Emperor. Includes historical notes on her later life.

In 1946, imaginary conversations with President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, Washington, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her father, a pilot in the Army Air Corps who was reported missing in action.

The struggles and hardships faced by Jeff Bussey on his 300-mile escape route during the Civil War.

Sacagawea describes how, at the age of sixteen, she becomes part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and serves as their interpreter and guide, surviving many dangerous adventures on their trek through the wilderness.