historical fiction

In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abigail and her little brother Seth find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine, and help her discover a way to support them all.

Two runaways, Erika and Oz, wind up at the Bily Clocks Museum in Spillville, Iowa, and fall into a bizarre adventure--they travel back in time and learn why the Bilys spent their lives carving and building these mysterious clocks.

Patsy Black and her friend Barbara, young girls living in colonial Philadelphia at the time of the Continental Congress, decide to form a club called the Daughters of Liberty, little realizing they will one day aid the forces of freedom.

President Theodore Roosevelt does not approve of cutting down living trees just to be used as Christmas decorations, but his two young sons try to sneak one into the White House anyway.

Lizzie and Karl's mother, Mutti, working at a local zoo in Dresden, Germany, during World War II while their father is away fighting in France, brings home Marlene, a baby elephant that is slated to be destroyed as the Allied bombing grows closer, and when they are forced to flee, Mutti feels they must take Marlene with them, adding even more danger to their journey.

Twelve year old Dale longs to join in the war effort during World War II but he is unsure whether enrolling his dog Scout in the U.S. Army's Dogs for Defense program is the right decision.

Having traveled in her time machine to the court of Kublai Khan, Kat comes to the aid of a Mongolian princess who is facing a fearful future.

During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

Philip struggles to find his way home and make sure his family is safe during the great Chicago fire of 1871.

Max faces a moral dilemma when he sees new neighbor Sam Black strike Lucas, a boy who is in Sam's care, and later learns that Lucas has run away and is hiding in a secret fort in the woods.