historical fiction

In 1930, when a snowstorm destroys their home in the mountains of Appalachia twelve-year-old Roxie and her family move into the barn and prepare for a very unusual Christmas celebration.

While the Civil War rages in Missouri and Rebels destroy their farm home and scatter their family, thirteen-year-old Jacob and his younger sister find refuge in an unlikely place.

Ann and Meg encounter danger and adventure when they join a group of voyageurs on a trip across the Canadian wilderness in hopes of finding their fur-trader father.

Ten-year-old Beth takes an exciting trip to pre-Civil War New York City with Marmee and Father.

Ann, a young girl in eighteenth-century Williamsburg, wants to become a doctor like her father, but she is not allowed even to study Latin or mathematics.

Living in Boston in 1773, thirteen-year-old Stephen Lankford and his older brother William become involved in the activities of the revolutionary group known as the Sons of Liberty.

When the first mate of the freight boat Neptune falls ill, it is up to Abigail, the captain's daughter, to steer the ship up the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York City.

Sixth grader Janey G. Blue, living on Oahu while her father works at Hickam Airfield, is caught up in the terrifying events of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.

In volume four in a six-volume American Girl series, nine-year-old Felicity Merriman from colonial Williamsburg receives a guitar for her birthday, disobeys her mother by taking it out to show her friend, Elizabeth, and overhears a conversation that could mean danger for the colonists.

In fifteenth-century Africa, Kai and her beautiful but lazy older sister Jamila undertake a perilous four-day journey to another Yoruba village, seeking help for their starving tribe after the blight of the yam crop.