historical fiction

When her father leaves in the middle of the night, Solveig sets off in a boat to follow him to Constantinople.

In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.

"Joe Wood has big dreams. He wants to be a newspaperman, and though he is only thirteen, he has already borrowed money for the equipment to start his own press. But it's April 1861, and the young nation is teetering on the brink of a civil war. He has to help Owen, his young assistant, deal with the challenges of being black in a white world torn apart by color. He needs to talk his best friend, Charlie, out of enlisting. He wants to help a young spiritualist, Nell, whose uncle claims she can speak to the dead. And when Owen disappears, it's up to Joe to save him"--Provided by publisher.

A fictional account of the late-eighteenth-century Haitian revolution, focusing on Toussaint Louverture, a self-educated slave, and Dr. Hebert, a man who falls in love with Nanon, a mulatto.

In Renaissance Florence, fourteen-year-old Emilia Serafini dreams of becoming a painter. Her quest is guided by her grandmother's legacy, a book of alchemy.

In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe?s first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century?s arms race.

As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young and innocent woman, blood that will appease the gods and allow the troops to set sail.