During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, ten-year-old Joris and his older brother Dirk Jan become involved in the resistance movement and, with the help of their parents, help conceal a British airman.
Twelve-year-old Liam and his family must flee their home when a fire rages through Chicago in 1871. Includes notes on the Great Chicago Fire and suggests creative writing, scrapbook, and family history activities.
Recounts the explosion of the Hindenburg, a German rigid airship, which caught fire and exploded on May 6, 1937 from the perspective of fifteen-year-old Michael Roth, who is traveling to America with his family.
Rifka, a young Jewish girl, writes to her cousin, chronicling her family's experiences fleeing Russia in 1919, and her own trials after being left in Belgium on her own while the others emigrate to America.
When her owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where she is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Samantha, an orphan who is being raised by her wealthy grandmother, puts aside the social norms of the day in order to befriend Nellie, a servant girl who lives next door.
Shares the adventures of a young Nex Perc?e girl, Kaya, as she grows up in the American West. Includes "Meet Kaya," "Kaya's Escape!" "Kaya's Hero," and other stories from the American Girl series.
Two orphaned peasant children discover a mysterious pouch, the contents of which lead them to the majestic Castle Corona, where their lives may be transformed forever.
