historical fiction

An eighteenth-century schoolteacher encounters resistance from the community when she allows a former slave to join the children in her class.

Jo's preacher father accepts a post in Jericho, Alabama, and is not prepared for 1950s-style racism and hatred she encounters after she becomes friends with a young African-American boy.

Plantation slave Perro Viejo, taken from his mother at birth, meets Beira, an old slave believed to be a witch, and together they hatch a plan to escape.

Fifth grader Pearl Jordan learns some difficult lessons about friendship when she befriends the odd, but artistically talented Artemesia, then shuns her in favor of the popular Lenore.

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

A fictional diary of a young woman named Mariana, who describes her life in a convent in Mexico City near the end of the seventeenth century--the same convent that housed famous poet nun Juana In?s de la Cruz. Also includes a glossary of seventeenth-century terms and a list of suggested readings.

Richie, Ed, Don, and other kids share a series of adventures while preparing for the annual coaster car race in their small Arkansas town during World War II.

In 1961, newly arrived at the United States Army base near the World War I battlefields at Verdun, France, twelve-year-old Terrence "O.B." O'Brien is torn between the popular boys on the baseball team and a French boy they tease for being different.

No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an education and becoming a teacher, but she finds the reality of freedom harsh.

A young boy, not recognizing the significance of being a Jew in Nazi, Germany, takes pride in the yellow star he is forced to wear, but he soon comes to feel shame and fear and must hide his light for a very long time until the war ends and he can once again take pride in his identity.