historical fiction

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World War II pilots

an interactive history adventure
Presents a choose-your-own adventure book in which the reader-player plays as an Allied Air Force pilot during World War II.

Distant waves

a novel of the Titanic
In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances--journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor--home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.

Grandfather's dance

2008
As her family gathers for the wedding of her sister Anna, fourth-grader Cassie Whiting sees the many changes brought about by everyday life and finds comfort in the love of those around her, especially her grandfather.

Powder Monkey

2006
Thirteen-year-old Sam endures harsh conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after being pressed into service aboard the HMS Miranda during the Napoleonic Wars.

Revenge of the Aztecs

a story of 1920s Hollywood
2004
In 1923, fourteen-year-old Alicia Martinez is cast in a silent movie, but near-disasters on the set seem to be directed at her.

1776: son of liberty

2000
Caleb, a free black living in Maryland, waits anxiously for news from Boston.

Will's choice

1999
Sent away on an orphan train by his self-centered father Jessie, Will keeps hoping Jessie will return to claim him, even though the people he lives with care for him far more.

The road to freedom

2000
Entertaining and thought-provoking novel that tactfully deals with the problem of discrimination, telling of a boy's journey to a new country to find freedom.

Lucy's wish

1999
Ten-year-old Lucy, an orphan who wants a little sister more than anything, finds a very special one in the less than perfect family which she joins.

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