historical fiction

A fictionalized account of the four day voyage of the Titanic, told from the point of view of the young and wealthy nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan.

The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.

A young Englishman, seeking to avenge the death of his father, becomes involved in the band of the Black Arrow and the events of the War of the Roses.

Contains six essays in which the authors examine the historical context of the literary works of early twentieth-century American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing on the cultural and intellectual climate of the 1920s and 1930s, and its influence on his writing.

When her parents die in an accident in 1913, eleven-year-old Tanya decides to live alone, refusing charity from the people in her village, and supporting herself by selling muffins.

In the Arizona Territory in 1868, thirteen-year-old Charlotte, after escaping from a stagecoach being attacked by Indians, finds shelter and is befriended by an elderly Pima Indian woman who helps her gain a new sense of herself and her abilities to survive in a new land.

An Englishman who is the sole survivor of a seventeenth century shipwreck lives for almost thirty years on a deserted island before being rescued.

Gilbert Hamilton is left alone on the frontier when his father is killed and his mother is kidnapped by Sauk Indians during the War of 1812. Haunted by memories of his mother, Gil attends a camp meeting led by Peter Cartwright, a Methodist circuit-rider evangelist. Cartwright allows the boy to move with his family to Illinois, where Gil can begin the search for his mother.

A fictionalized biography of Churchill Roberts, a second generation Texan who joined the Thirteenth Calvary Battalion during the Civil War and fought in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Davy Crockett's dog Rip describes the Battle of the Alamo and how he survived it.