historical fiction

In 1780 South Carolina, thirteen-year-old Maggie believes in the American cause, but after her father is seized by the British she is forced to live with her loyalist aunt in Charles Town--but when the British capture the city Maggie is determined to get information to Colonel Francis Marion.

"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--Provided by publisher.

In 1759, after a band of fellow settlers fakes a Cherokee raid to conceal the murder of her family, seventeen-year-old Catriona "Catie" Blair embarks on a journey across rural South Carolina and through Cherokee territory to report the crime and bring the murderers to justice, while desperately seeking to regain her own sense of safety.

Times are hard in Depression era Georgia mountain country. Even so, fourteen-year-old Halley Owenby, her younger brother, Robbie, and their parents, Jim and Kate manage to get by until Jim dies suddenly in an accident, and Kate decides she and her children have no choice but to move in with her parents.

A retelling of the Trojan War in graphic novel format where the Achaean forces clash with the Trojan army and Pandarus pulls the strings to put Troilus in Cressida's bed.

In 1915 Wisconsin, a farm horse named Jingle Bells worries that his family will replace him when the older son brings home a brand new Model-T Ford car. Includes facts about Clydesdale horses.

As a child in early twentieth century America, Vivian Daly is sent to the Midwest toward an uncertain future. Decades later, Vivian has a life of her own on the East Coast, and when teenager Molly Ayer arrives to help her clean out her attic in order to fulfill her community service requirement, the two locate mementos and keepsakes from Vivian's past that reveal the two are not so different.

Follows five families as they struggle through the economic, political, and social difficulties presented during the mid-twentieth century, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich and proceeding through the beginning of the Cold War. Along the way, the families find their lives intertwined and gain additional perspective on the defining moments of their era.

"In the days of the Song Dynasty, government corruption is rampant, and the enemies of a ruthless schemer named Qiu Gao are driven out of power and into the untamed countryside of China. There they encounter 108 mischievous spirits who have taken root in the form of bandits and thieves who are about to make life very difficult for Qiu Gao"--Back cover.

Dedicated Nationalist Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon is a sergeant in the Guardia Civil determined to impose order on the ruins of Madrid in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, but he begins to questions his beliefs and actions when he brutally murders a woman he assumed had killed his friend and comrade, only to learn he has made a mistake.