historical fiction

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The Virginian

a horseman of the plains
2010
The Virginia, a soft-spoken cowboy, moves to a frontier town in Wyoming in the late 1800s, bringing law and order, and finding love.

Swindletop

2000
In 1901, twelve-year-old Jake and his sister travel from Lithuania to Texas and find a totally different world, including suffragettes, swindlers, a mysterious youth with strange powers, and a compassionate rabbi.

Knothole in the closet

a story about Belle Boyd, a confederate spy
2007
Nineteen-year-old Belle Boyd risks her freedom and perhaps her life to deliver a vital message to General Stonewall Jackson, ensuring a Confederate victory in Virginia on May 23, 1862.

Delivering Rome

the adventures of a young Roman courier
2007
In ancient Rome on his ninth birthday, Martial Portius races to deliver an important message to his older brother, Hershal, who will likely lose his job as a Roman courier if he does not receive the information on time.

Weasel

1998
Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.

Valley Forge

George Washington and the crucible of victory
2010
A novelization of the events at Valley Forge that depicts Washington and his demoralized army in 1777, when they lived through the winter at the camp, enduring cold and starvation before being joined by Baron von Steuben, a volunteer from Germany who helps Washington mold the army into a force capable of taking on the British.

The thundering underground

2006
London detective Sherlock Holmes turns to the Baker Street Brigade, a group of orphans in the district, for help in solving a series of mysterious explosions and deaths on the construction site of London's Underground.

The mystery of the yellow hands

2006
The three friends--Danny, Peachy, and Duff--assist Sherlock Holmes in solving the mysterious kidnapping of children in London during the 1880's.

The Jeweled Peacock of Persia

2006
While investigating the dangerous and inexplicable occurrences surrounding an ancient jewelled artifact, Sherlock Holmes and his Baker Street Brigade find unexplained fires, falling masonry, and other sinister events.

Jerusalem interlude

1990
When Leah and Shimon arrive in Jerusalem they find themselves pitted in a struggle against a sinister darkness which could threaten their safety in the new homeland.

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