historical fiction

Anaxandra, daughter of the king of a small Greek island, becomes caught up in the events of the siege of Troy when, after spending most of her life as a hostage, she is taken into the palace of King Menalaus and ends up traveling to Troy as protector of Helen's infant son.

In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, sets out to rescue the young Emperor Yasuhito from his kidnappers.

When sixteen-year-old Baoliu is wrongfully accused of murdering his stepmother, his father pays someone else to die in his place, leaving Baoliu to fend for himself on the streets of twelfth-century China.

During the summer of 1956 ten-year-old Junior Webster, his friends, and especially his father, a decorated World War II veteran, discover what heroism is all about.

After enduring racial attacks in the Negro Officer Training Program, two young African-American men endure the hardships of World War I.

In 1937, when LaMarr's glamorous mother is lost in a plane crash and she goes to live with her aunt and uncle, it takes the thirteen-year-old some time to reconcile herself to the idea that her mother has not gone to Hollywood to become a movie star.

Three young people from very different backgrounds--the son of a wealthy New Mexican rancher, a Navajo slave, and a young Texan soldier--who find themselves held for ransom by a pair of horse thieves learn to look beyond their differences.

When River Fillian's powerful father, a pirate on a Mississippi keeler, disappears after a horrific earthquake in 1811, she must challenge the infamous rivals who hope to claim his territory and find her own place in the order. Includes historical notes.

In 1409, aspiring knight Roland Wright joins the royal household at Twofold Castle as a new page, but his plan to impress King John and his knights quickly backfires.

Fourteen-year-old Emmaline Cayley, her friend, and Princess Purnah of Chiligrit try to avoid the government's attempts to return Purnah to her school and a man who collects mad scientists and wants to capture the children.