historical fiction

High Constable Jacob Hays, the first detective in New York City, takes on a casein 1841 that consumes the remaining years of his career when he sets out to investigate a series of murders linked to gang wars, grave robbers, and cryptic clues in the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

When word spreads throughout New York's immigrant wards that a military draft is about to be implemented, three women struggle with their private fears as they wait to learn if the men they love will be forced to fight in the Civil War.

After years of isolation in the North African desert, Taita is summoned back to the Egyptian court, where he is pulled into battle against evil forces that threaten the throne and pitted against young prince Nefer, the grandson of Taita's late beloved Queen Lostris.

After several years at King Arthur's court, Terence, as Sir Gawain's squire and friend, accompanies him on a perilous quest that tests all their skills and whose successful completion could mean certain death for Gawain.

A collection of five of Gary Paulsen's novels about Francis Tucket and his adventures in the West.

Contains the complete text to two novels by Jennifer Armstrong which feature Mary Mehan and her experiences during the Civil War and its aftermath.

In 1972 in Seattle, a teenager in a Japanese American family struggles for his own identity, along with a group of three friends who share his anger and confusion.

Eleven-year-old Luka, destined to become the future emperor of China, is trained in the ways of the kung fu wandering warriors by the wise monk Atami.

An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.

An historical fiction depicting the life and reign of Lady Jane Grey, who finds herself in the middle of civil unrest that plagued the House of Tudor during the sixteenth century.