historical fiction

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Cracker!

the best dog in Vietnam
2008
A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing German shepherd.

Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo

2011
Sent to prison on a false accusation in 1815, Edmond Dantes escapes many years later and finds a treasure which he uses to exact his revenge.

The time thief

being the second part of the Gideon trilogy
2008
When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.

My brother Abe

Sally Lincoln's story
2010
A fictionalized account of the childhood of Sally Lincoln that recounts the adventures she had with her brother Abe and reveals how she helped shaped the future president.

Kanada

2006
Jutka, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, survives the brutality of Auschwitz by dreaming of a life in Canada, but after the liberation, Jutka must decide whether she wants to follow her dreams and move to Canada to live with her last remaining relatives or start a new life with Sandor, the man she has fallen in love with, in Israel.

Daughter of war

a novel
2008
Armenian Marta disguises herself as a Muslim to escape genocide in Turkey, and must now locate her sister and fianc? also who may have hidden their true identities.

Picture bride

a novel
1997
Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917 to marry Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper. Together they build a business and home, raise a daughter, and find tragedy when sent to a detention camp during World War II.

Rockbuster

2001
In 1915, after being asked to sing at the funeral of executed songwriter and member of the international union, Industrial Workers of the World, Joe Hill, eighteen-year-old Utah coal miner Tommy Quinlan begins to accept his past and make decisions about his future.

Ride for freedom

the story of Sybil Ludington
2001
In 1777, on a cold and stormy night in the New York Colony, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes a dangerous and difficult ride to warn the local militiamen that the British Army is looting and burning nearby Danbury, Connecticut.

Much ado about Grubstake

2006
When two city folks arrive in the depressed mining town of Grubstake, Colorado in 1888, sixteen-year-old orphaned Arley tries to discover why they want to buy the supposedly worthless mines in the area.

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