historical fiction

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historical fiction

Pagan's vows

2005
Follows the adventures of Pagan, squire to Lord Roland, through the years 1188 to 1189, as he accompanies his master, now determined to be a monk, to the French monastery of St. Martin and uncovers a dangerous blackmail plot.

Witness

2005
Presents an historical fiction written in poetic form that represents the views of various people in a small Vermont town in the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan tries to infiltrate their town.

The prairie train

2004
As a young Irish immigrant boy travels by steam-engine across the American prairie to a new life, memories of the old country pull at his heart.

The journal of Ben Uchida

Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp
2003
Presents the fictional journal of twelve-year-old Ben Uchida in which he describes his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.

Where the red fern grows

1991
This is the story about a boy during the Depression in the Ozarks, who achieved his heart's desire in the ownership of two red-bone coon hounds, and how he taught them all the tricks of hunting, and how they won the championship coon hunt.

Chains

After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

The legend of Bass Reeves

being the true and fictional account of the most valiant marshal in the West
The story of Bass Reeves who was born a slave and later became one of the most respected federal marshals in Oklahoma and Texas.

Day of tears

a novel in dialogue
Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.

Darker still

a novel of magic most foul
2011
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Stewart becomes obsessed with a painting of handsome British Lord Denbury in New York City in 1882, even though she has the disquieting feeling that details of the work keep changing, while Denbury, his soul trapped by dark magic in the painting, tries to lure Natalie to join him and free him from his curse.

January 1905

2004
In a 1905 mill town, eleven-year-old twin sisters, Pauline, who goes to work with the rest of the family, and Arlene, whose crippled foot keeps her home doing the cooking, cleaning, and washing, are convinced that the other sister has an easier life until a series of incidents helps them see each other in a new light.

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