historical fiction

Five sisters share the everyday adventures of growing up in New York City's Lower East Side in the early twentieth-century.

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

Fourteen-year-old aviatrix Emmaline Cayley and her copilot Rubberbones Burns set out to stop the master criminal known as the Faceless Fiend, who wants to kidnap their houseguest, Princess Purnah.

A goose named Willoughby visits London, meets a friendly actor-playwright named Shakespeare, and helps make literary history.

In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family.

A fictionalized account of ten-year-old Ethel Roosevelt's early experiences in the White House after her father, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes president in 1901.

Louise and Livy Two must take charge of their large family after their father disappears during a hike up Waterrock Knob.

Artemesia, having escaped the hangman's noose and married her true love, finds life ashore a bit boring after her adventures as a pirate queen, and does not hesitate when the government of England, at war with France and Spain, offers her a ship in exchange for her service in harassing the enemy.

After escaping from finishing school, Artemesia reunites her mother's crew and sets out to sea, where she encounters Golden Girl and fights to be queen pirate.