historical fiction

"In this historical fiction picture book, Ella Mae and her cousin Charlotte, both African American, start their own shoe store when they learn that they cannot try on shoes at the shoe store"--Provided by publisher.

In 1920s New Mexico, Kitty Evans, working long hours as a waitress in the Harvey Eating Houses on the Santa Fe Railroad, dreams of being a journalist and chronicles her experiences in her diary.

"Isabel Brandt is a French-phrase-dropping twelve-year-old Jewish girl from the Bronx who's more interested in boys and bobbing her nose than the war raging overseas. But Isabel's sheltered life is turned upside down when Helga, the beautiful niece of her mother's best friend, comes to live with her family. As she learns more about Helga's harrowing journey from Hitler's Germany to America, Isabel begins to understand the horrors of the Holocaust, and the true costs of war"--Back cover.

Sheltered Princess Marie-Th??r?se Charlotte is determined to understand the Revolution that is sweeping France, so she switches places with a chambermaid and sneaks out of the palace--but even with a street-wise companion, Henri, the streets of Paris are a dangerous place.

A story about Doctor Janusz Korczak who showed respect and kindness to Jewish children who were orphans and forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto.

In post-World War I England, eleven-year-old Triss nearly drowns in a millpond known as "The Grimmer" and emerges with memory gaps, aware that something is terribly wrong, and to try to set things right, she must meet a twisted architect who has designs on her family.

During World War II, Grace and William Chambers are sent to live with a host family in Canada and are comforted by a teddy bear that is given to them by a nurse serving on the homefront.

Lucas has to tell his dad's friend Benny, a firefighter and former football star, that his parents do not want him playing football anymore, and he takes the train into New York City to talk to Benny, but everything changes when the Twin Towers are attacked.

One night in 1960, teen actress Pagan Jones gets behind the wheel drunk and drives her car off a cliff, killing her father and sister. Now at a reformatory for girls, Pagan receives a suspicious offer to do a comedy directed in West Berlin. Accompanied by a mysterious guardian, Pagan heads to Berlin and finds herself in over her head in espionage.

While on the run from a mob accusing them of witchcraft in 1625, John's mother teaches him about an ancient and secret Feast. A winter out in the wild takes his mother's life, and John is taken to Buckland Manor as an orphan and put to work in the kitchens. Guided by the master cook, John takes his mother's story about the Feast to heart and quickly gains recognition for his culinary creations. Now the master of the house's daughter, Lucretia, swears she will fast until her father lets her off the hook for an arranged marriage. The task falls to John to get her to eat, but in his attempts John and Lucretia slowly fall in love themselves. Meanwhile the English Civil War is looming.