historical fiction

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Right from wrong

a novel
1999
Raised as siblings, Sunny DeLony and her cousin Gil are separated when their families notice the attraction between them, Gil enlisting to fight in World War I, and Sunny marrying a local man, but nothing can make them forget their feelings.

The iceberg hermit

1974
Shipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival.

Escape from Egypt

a novel
1996
When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat.

So far from the bamboo grove

1994
A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.

Andersonville

1993
Captures the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict, the Civil War, in the crowded world of the infamous prison, Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades.

The killer angels

a novel
1996
A fictional account of four days in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing tactics, plans, and preparations for battle from both the Northern and Southern points of view.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1996
After escaping from the island where he has been in prison, Edmond Dant?s plots his revenge on the people responsible for his imprisonment.

Maiden voyage

1996
Sumner, a boy whose mother is deeply entrenched in the suffragist movement, is raised on stories of heroes and people who fight for right, which makes his dilemma all the more difficult when he is treated to a trip aboard the Titanic and is faced with the issue of women and children first.

An acquaintance with darkness

1999
When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.

Early thunder

1987
In pre-revolutionary Salem, fourteen-year-old Daniel begins to re-examine his loyalty to the King as the conflict between Tories and patriots increasingly divides the townspeople.

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