historical fiction

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Freedom at any price

March, 1775-April 19, 1775
2003
After hearing Patrick Henry's speech and riding with Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride, the Liberty's Kids set off for Lexington, Massachusetts, where they witness the "shot heard round the world" and the start of the American Revolution.

Justice for all

December 5, 1773-September 5, 1774
2003
Boston in 1773 is an inhospitable place for the two teenagers whose lives are about to intersect there.

Chasing the secret

2009
When, after intercepting a secret message from their mother, their evil Uncle Hidehira uncovers their samurai disguise, Kimi and Hana again must flee for their lives and, with the help of a fellow student, undertake a perilous journey to find their mother and brother before they are captured by Hidehira's samurai.

The secret of Gabi's dresser

1999
The story of a young Jewish girl named Gabi, whose Czechoslovakian town suffers at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War, and her unusual hiding place.

Clara's war

2001
After young Clara and her family are sent by the Nazis to the Czechoslovakian ghetto of Terezin, she copes by looking forward to auditions for a children's opera, "Brundibar"--but plans change when she learns her friend Jacob is plotting an escape.

The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

a World War II soldier
2003
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.

By the shores of Silver Lake

2004
In 1879, young Laura Ingalls travels with her mother and her sisters Carrie, Grace, and Mary to the Dakota Territory to meet Pa and start a new chapter in their lives.

San Domingo

the medicine hat stallion
1992
In Pre-Civil War Wyoming, a teenager's life is complicated when his strangely hostile father trades the boy's beloved horse to the Pony Express.

Dancing at the Odinochka

2005
Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America in the 1860s, becomes more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans.

Pagan's vows

2004
Follows the adventures of Pagan, squire to Lord Roland, through the years 1188 to 1189, as he accompanies his master, now determined to be a monk, to the French monastery of St. Martin and uncovers a dangerous blackmail plot.

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