historical fiction

In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.

A young pioneer boy must adjust to settled frontier life when his father leaves him with relatives during a particularly hard winter and returns to the woods.

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.

Cricket, a restless seal brown pony, is excited to be chosen by two New Yorkers to help start the game of polo in America. Includes facts about seal brown horses.

Thorliff Bjorklund has dreamed of being a writer since he was a young boy, but in order to pursue a writing career, Thorliff must go against his father's wishes.

In order to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, Jesselynn Highwood takes her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from their plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri so they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War.

Julio, a thirteen-year-old boy in 1845, finds friendship and a clue to his identity while living with the Cheyenne tribe that rescued him on the Santa Fe Trail.

Medieval physician Kathryn Swinbrooke is busily attending to her patients and preparing for the Christmas holiday when the news arrives that the painter Richard Blunt has confessed to killing his young wife and two men. But his confession arouses Kathryn's suspicions, and she is compelled to investigate.

Gawain Harper, having joined the Confederate Army to pacify his future father-in-law, returns to Cumberland, Mississippi in 1865 only to find another battle on his hands, this time with a deranged, manipulative man on a mission to bring his own brand of justice to the war torn community.

From Aztec princess to slave and concubine, Huitzitzilin recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. As she relates her tale to Father Benito, she forces him to see the conquest through the eyes of the conquered.