historical fiction

In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her.

In 1620 Sarah arrived at the Virginia colony after a torturous voyage on which her parents died. Sarah plans to return to England until she begins to love the country and its people and meets one very special man.

Lists historical fiction written since 1940 alphabetically by the author's last name.

Contains six stories by nineteenth-century American writer Stephen Crane, including the title selection which explores the psychological effects of war through the experiences of a Union recruit in the Civil War whose dreams of glory are shattered by the realities of battle.

Peter Palafox and his lifelong friend, Sean, sign on as midshipmen, hoping to find their fortune across the ocean and see more of the world.

Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.

In mid-nineteenth century London, three young boys try to retrieve a valuable roll of copper from the bottom of the Thames River.

A historical novel in which Leonka, an old man who served as a youth as kitchen boy in the Ipatiev House where the tsar and tsarina, Nicholas and Alexandra, were imprisoned, finally reveals what he saw, and what he did on the night the Imperial Family was executed in 1918.

Eighteen-year-old housekeeper Sierra O'Nielle and Joseph Harlan, the handsome son of a wealthy cattle rancher, are contemplating a totally unsuitable romance when they are literally thrown together by the devastating 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.

Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts, her uncle, and seven mischievous boy cousins.