historical fiction

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Earthquake, San Francisco, 1906

2014
When two young strangers meet by chance on the day of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, they struggle to survive the terror of crumbling buildings, fire, looting, and chaos.

Ariel Bradley

spy for General Washington
2013
Ariel Bradley is Washington's boy spy who pretends to be a country bumpkin (a "Johnny Raw"). He 'stumbles' into General Howe's camp "looking for the mill" his father has sent him in search of. In reality, he is assessing the strength and numbers of the British and their Hessian (German) allies.

Prince of Shadows

a novel of Romeo and Juliet
The star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet, told through the eyes of Romeo's cousin, Benvolio, a thief known as the Prince of Shadows.

Born of illusion

2013
Set in 1920s New York City, this is the story of budding magician Anna Van Housen, who has spent her whole life playing sidekick to her faux-medium mother--and trying to hide the fact the she actually possesses the very abilities her mother fakes.

Red Wolf

In the late 1800s, Red Wolf befriends an orphaned timber wolf before being forced to attend a residential school under the Indian Act, and both the boy and the wolf must learn to survive alone in a white man's world.

Waterless mountain

Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence.

A pitch in time

2002
After he takes a tumble from his bike and winds up back in time in the spring of 1864 during the Civil War, young Mac Dugan learns about the history of his favorite sport, baseball.

The rooftop adventure of Minnie and Tessa, factory fire survivors

2011
Two immigrant friends, Jewish Minnie and Catholic Tessa, work long hours at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and when a fire breaks out on March 25, 1911, trapping dozens of workers inside, they help one another to escape the flames. Includes facts about the factory, the fire, and its aftermath.

Cabin on Trouble Creek

2008
In 1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to finish the log cabin and guard the land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch their mother and younger siblings.

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