historical fiction

In the fifteenth century, an Indian boy named Jahan brings the sultan of Istanbul a white elephant named Chota as a gift. Jahan becomes Chota's trainer, but quickly proves his aptitude for architecture and is taken as apprentice to Mimar Sinan. Together with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and other laborers, Jahan begins working on some of the most beautiful buildings of the Ottoman empire--but in the process makes enemies and is caught up in schemes of intrigue and secrecy.

Addy Walker and her mother risk everything for freedom in the North during the Civil War.

Taking a job in the galley of the Titanic to earn his passage from Ireland to America, Gavin teams up with grieving orphan Karolina when the doomed ship's collision with an iceberg threatens their survival.

While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.

Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.

A nine-year-old Jewish girl, helped by Irena Sendler and the Zegota organization, is smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto, given a new identity, and sent to live in the countryside for the duration of the World War II.

In the late 1850s, with her mother dead and her brother riding for the Pony Express, Matty often finds that she must face all the dangers of pre-Civil War Kansas alone on the family farm.

"A young Amish woman fends off the matchmaking efforts of her fellow passengers on the Charming Nancy--the ship that brought the first wave of Amish to America in 1737"--Provided by publisher.

Despite being a Lord's heir, thirteen-year-old James is abandoned on the dangerous streets of 18th century Dublin. Drawn into a world of thieves, highwaymen and warring gangs his life takes an even more dangerous turn when he is sold into slavery in America. Will he be able to escape and get his life and inheritance back? This exciting adventure is based on a true story.

Sophia, now Catherine, wife of the unstable Russian heir, Peter, struggles against the forces that want to depose Empress Elizabeth and put Prince Ivan on the throne as Russia and her native Prussia go to war and she has to make sacrifices.