historical fiction

When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy, a former slave, discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she escaped from only two years earlier. Includes an educational section on Reconstruction.

Molly becomes weary and troubled in the spring of 1945 while doing her patriotic duty to help the U.S. win WWII, and when her father returns home safe, he seems slightly changed.

After Rebecca meets a new family in her New York City apartment building and helps watch their fussy baby while they are moving in, she becomes convinced that they have been victimized by the kidnappers that have been operating in their neighborhood.

Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Davey has been saving his money ever since his mother died so that he can leave the Seattle boardinghouse where he lives and works and go find his Uncle Walt in Alaska, and he becomes even more determined when gold is discovered in the Klondike and his stash of money disappears.

Against the warnings of her people, Kaya befriends a lone dog, but as the dog's pups begin to grow older, Kaya believes that her dog is speaking to her.

In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy becomes an apprentice actor with Shakespeare's troupe and finds out more about his parents along the way.

When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.

The second of Jeff Shaara's epic trilogy on World War II covers the story of D-Day and the Allied invasion of France told from the perspective of some of the event's major characters.

In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle dies.