historical fiction

Hiroshi is shocked when his family, and all people of Japanese ancestry, are moved to internment camps after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.

As a young Irish immigrant boy travels by steam-engine across the American prairie to a new life, memories of the old country pull at his heart.

In the early twentieth century, eleven-year-old Su-Na and her younger sisters travel from their home in Korea to the promising shores of Hawaii, but upon their arrival her father must work long hours for little money and the family is exposed to the racism prevalent among Asians of differing descent.

In 1704, after their mistress receives a mysterious letter requesting their arrival, twelve-year-old servant girls Hester and Philena embark on a dangerous journey from Boston to New Haven, Connecticut, unaware of the ways their lives are about to change.

In 1778 fifteen-year-old Cuff, a slave on an island off the coast of Rhode Island, joins the Continental Army and experiences the horrors of the Battle of Rhode Island as he fights for his own personal freedom.

A young woman, burdened by a terrible secret, must decide to reveal the secret and betray her best friend or to keep the secret and send her friend to prison in this coming-of-age story set in Missouri in 1905.

The second Christmas after their mother has died, Josefina and her three sisters find that participating in the traditions of Las Posadas helps keep memories of Mam?a alive.

Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus and Queen Amata, gets caught in the middle of her parent's conflicting wishes that she marry either Turnus, king of Rutuli, or Trojan stranger Aeneas, which follows an omen that dictates she will cause a war, and that her husband will die young.

In 1711, twelve-year-old C?ecile Revel unexpectedly gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's sister-in-law at the palace of Versailles, but instead of a dream come true, life at court proves to be complicated and precarious.

Survivors of the WWII in Madrid, including neurotic business owners, wordy salesmen, and aloof poets, meet at Dona Rosa's caf? where they argue, laugh, and generally worry about life's hardships.