historical fiction

After her parents die, Lucy Simmons tries to protect her family home from her greedy uncle Victor with the help of mysterious magic that seems to show up at just the right time. Together with a mysterious woman named Marni, Lucy races to thwart Victor's plans and discovers the most powerful type of magic of all.

Hoping to find out once and for all what happened to his parents, thirteen-year-old Alex, a time traveler, sets out across thirteenth-century Scotland to Hog Tower, where he believes his parents are being held. He crosses war-torn battlefields and interacts with historical figures, like William Wallace.

A tale of adventure, treachery, and friendship in the battle-torn wilderness of eighteenth-century upstate New York.

"Thirteen-year-old Mina Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are forced to evacuate their Seattle home and are relocated to an internment camp in Idaho, where they live for three years"--Provided by publisher.

Hazel Kaplansky and student Samuel Butler investigate rumors that a Russian spy has infiltrated their small Vermont town, amidst the fervor of Cold War era McCarthyism, but more is revealed than they could ever have imagined.

Mattie, Ned, Sally, and Mac know they're in for some fun because Miss Emily, reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, invites them to her garden and she always has a surprise in store, soon Miss Emily and her band of pretend Gypsies wait for the midnight circus train to arrive.

A little boy is on a search for the perfect gift for his mother, navigating the streets of 1890s Vienna, meeting new people, and continuing to trade one gift for another.

Newly arrived on the Western front and assigned as a medic, Rivera finds himself in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge, cut off behind enemy lines--and his only companion is a Nazi trained Doberman pinscher.

The Battle of Gettysburg was fought for two dreams-- freedom, and a way of life. Memories, promises, and love were carried into the battle but what fell was shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty. Annotation: The Battle of Gettysburg was fought for two dreams-- freedom, and a way of life. Memories, promises, and love were carried into the battle but what fell was shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty.

In an alternate nineteenth-century America that is still a colony of Britain's industrial empire, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees' struggle to survive is interrupted by a newcomer with no memory, bearing secrets about a terrible future.