In 1775 in Boston, twelve-year-old Mary Cates, a silver polisher in Paul Revere's shop and a patriot, becomes a spy when she accidentally discovers that an apprentice is working against their boss.
In 1892, eight-year-old Kitty learns about writing and the world beyond her Dummerston, Vermont, home when she befriends her new neighbors, author Rudyard Kipling and his family, who have recently arrived from England.
Twelve-year-old Davey arrives in Dawson City from Lake Bennett to look for his Uncle Walt who has come to the area to search for gold and encounters thousands of people, abandoned dogs, and a fire that threatens to destroy the town.
Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State.
Davey, making his way from Seattle to find his uncle in the Klondike, stops in the town of Skagway where he takes a job working for photographer Erik Larson before starting the next leg of his journey, but he fears he may not be able to go on when Erik falls ill on the Chilkoot Trail.
a story of New York's Lower East Side and its immigrants
Dell, Pamela
2003
In 1901, thirteen-year-old Dimitri, his younger brother, and their parents are beginning to feel at home in New York City's Lower East Side, where they have lived since their Jewish faith led them to flee Russia thirteen months earlier.
For over two years in the mid-1500s, Pieter Bruegel keeps a journal of his trip from his home in Antwerp, The Netherlands, to Rome, where he studies art before returning home again.
A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, including two who were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
In 1924, twelve-year-old Ruthie finds her life in a small Oklahoma town complicated by the behavior of her older sister Daphne, an object of ridicule and dislike because of her limited mental abilities.
