historical fiction

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historical fiction

Kiowa trail

1999
A nineteen-year-old cattle driver, who has his eye on a girl with a very protective father, is murdered.

Wings

1994
Cassie O'Malley, a determined young woman, fights the odds and becomes a world-renowned aviator.

To tame a land

1997
Rye Tyler was a man to be feared in the West. His best friends were his guns. Then he met Liza, and there was a bright new light in his life--a light a ruthless outlaw tried to steal away.

The empty land

2003
Matt Coburn was going to bring law and order to Confusion, even though he had to face every kind of gunman, knife artist, and criminal.

Rivers west

1999
Jean Talon leaves his home in French Canada and embarks on a dangerous journey to the American West.

The prince and the pauper

2008
An illustrated adaptation of Mark Twain's story in which young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, and learn something about each other's very different station in life.

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SOCKS

1999
In the midst of a backyard campout, ten-year-old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington and the American Revolution, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war.

Number the stars

2007
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

The Watsons go to Birmingham-- 1963

2007
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

SKYLARK

2007
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

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