historical fiction

Thirteen-year-old Cissy must discover what family means to her as she is caught in a struggle between her aunt and mother in Depression-era Colorado.

Aware of her sister's deadly efforts to secure the Scottish throne for Robert de Brus, Meg realizes she must protect the young Norwegian princess who has been chosen as rightful heir.

Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes an author's note and historical timeline.

In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.

After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.

Ten-year-old Benjamin Rome is forced to consider issues far beyond his years when his hometown of Farmville, Virginia becomes caught up in the efforts of Prince Edward County to close the public schools in response to the passage of desegregation laws in 1959, and develop an all-white private school system, effectively robbing his longtime friend Burghardt, and other African-Americans, of an education.

In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.

Bird McGill, an eleven-year-old tomboy obsessed with flying in 1942, withholds judgement while her classmates maintain that new Japanese American student Kenji Fujita is a spy, but she realizes Kenji is just as American as she is when they find evidence of real spy activity during their research for a class project.

Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, investigates a conspiracy when the Queen narrowly escapes a series of "accidents.".

In his diary, Angus, a terrier belonging to Orville and Wilbur Wright, records how his desire to fly caused the Wright Brothers to build their airplane.