Coriander, a girl in seventeenth-century London who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use her power to save herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
Forrest Harper, son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London, faces a moral dilemma when he befriends Maddy, the daughter of a Jacobite rebel, who has been imprisoned at the Tower, and learns she is slated for execution.
A comic book adaptation of the movie, in which pirate Jack Sparrow must find a way to save his soul from Davy Jones, who comes looking to collect on their old deal.
An 18-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
Felicity, a young girl living in the American colonies in the 1770s, struggles to hold to her beliefs about independence despite the disagreement of her beloved grandfather and her best friend.
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.
