Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
Eleven-year-old Gabe enlists in the Union Army in Pennsylvania along with his older brother Davy; and as bugler, does his best to protect Davy during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.
A simplified retelling of the classic tale set in 1757 about the exploits Hawkeye, a colonial scout, and his friends, Chingachkook, a chief of the Mohicans, and his son Uncas during the French and Indian War.
Ten-year-old Flavia and her friends encounter the Roman admiral Pliny before making a journey to her uncle's farm near Mt. Vesuvius, where they try to solve a riddle, reunite a family, and get out of the path of a natural disaster.
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
