historical fiction

In Emma and Izzy's world, all children process magic, but only the wealthy are allowed to wield it. Twelve-year-old Emma attends Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic, the best kindling school in New York City, but everything changes when her father dies. Now penniless, Emma must work as a servant for Miss Posterity to pay off her debts. After she befriends another servant girl, Izzy, they realize they both have something in common: they don't want to lose their magic. Izzy promises to teach Emma how to survive as a servant, and Emma agrees to teach Izzy all she knows about magic. Together, they embark on an adventure to bring lasting change to their world.

After his mother passes away, fifteen-year-old Rolf runs away and lives in a wigwam with Quonab, a Native American and his dog. The outdoor skills Quonab teaches Rolf become vital when he goes off to fight in the War of 1812.

"... Silvano Landi is a successful writer, who at age 50, sees his family leaving him and his life harshly falling apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw carnage in the First World War"--Back cover.

In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.

Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.

Follows the lives of Mi-ja and Young-sook, two very different girls living on the Korean island of Jeju. The girls bond when they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving group. However, after decades of friendship, forces out of their control threaten the women's relationship.

Follows the lives of Mi-ja and Young-sook, two very different girls living on the Korean island of Jeju. The girls bond when they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving group. However, after decades of friendship, forces out of their control threaten the women's relationship.

Living with her father in the Tower of London during the reign of Henry VIII, Moss is disgusted and revolted by both her father's job (executioner) and hers (collecting the freshly severed heads) and wants desperately to escape and find out more about her origins.

In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, forgers, and others who take great risks to shelter refugees and smuggle them to safety in Switzerland.

In the very white, very Christian world of Atlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.