historical fiction

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Marie

an invitation to dance, France, 1775
1996
Ten-year-old Marie dreams of becoming a ballerina, but without a wealthy sponsor, she faces a more mundane future dictated by her family's position in pre-Revolutionary Parisian society.

Hannah's helping hands

2000
In 1779 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah and her family try to maintain a sense of normalcy as the Revolutionary War rages around them, threatening to destroy their way of life.

Horror from the sky

the 1924 Lorain, Ohio tornado
2002
Calvin panics when he is caught in the 1924 Lorain, Ohio tornado and races to find his family and make sure they survived.

Mission sabotage

2002
William and his friends work together to sabotage a German mission during World War II.

The hidden dagger

1996
When a young boy in seventeenth-century England witnesses a lord's murder, he must find a way to reveal the killer before he becomes the next victim.

The longest journey

the story of the Donner Party
2002
A mother and her children struggle to survive a dangerous expedition through the mountains so they can be reunited with the rest of the family.

A boy no more

2006
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.

The spy on West Street

2002
Bill and Jack suspect their German neighbor is a Nazi spy.

The spy catchers

2002
Brady feels pulled in two directions when his friend suspects his new neighbor, whom he has a crush on, of being a Nazi spy.

Swamp

Bayou Teche, Louisiana, 1851
1999
In 1851 in Louisiana, Paul is abandoned in the bayous by his older brothers and it is up to his lame Cajun friend Lily to find him.

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