historical fiction

In a series of connected prose vignettes, Illinois farm boy Eddie Carl is forced to grow up quickly when his brother, Thomas, leaves to fly a bomber during World War II. Left beind, Eddie falls for red-headed Sarah and struggles to help a gypsy friend wrongly accused of arson.

Seventeen-year-old Clara tries to help her mother raise enough money in 1896 to save their home from foreclosure and announce their plans to walk over four thousand miles from their hometown in Washington to New York City within seven months for a reward of ten thousand dollars.

Gustave and his family leave Paris in 1940 and move to a small village in Free France when it becomes apparent that Paris is no longer a safe place for Jews. After meeting Nicole, a French Resistance member, he devises a plan to go back to Paris and smuggle his friends and relatives out of German-Occupied France.

To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.

Terence worries about the lengthy absence of his faery friends as he travels to Greece to aid the Emperor Alexander and attempts to thwart a nefarious plot by Mordred to assume the throne held by King Arthur.

Barnaby Grimes, a boy who collects and delivers information throughout Victorian London, faces his biggest challenge yet when he is confronted by a horde of living corpses.

Two friends, Peter and John, are caught on opposing sides of the war between the crusading Catholic Knights and the heretic city of B?ziers in 1209, and they embark on separate quests to uncover a secret that could change the world.

Nineteen-year-old pilot Henry Forester, having returned home to Virginia after fighting in World War II, is consumed by worry over the well-being of the people who helped him escape Nazi-occupied Germany and returns to France, where he is shocked to see the ravages of war and tries to regain internal peace.

In the tense summer of 1588, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Morris, after nearly perishing in a shipwreck, finds himself aboard the privateer Vixen, captained by the notorious and enigmatic Brandon Fletcher who offers him adventure and riches if Sherwin would write and disseminate a flattering account of the captain's exploits.

Now that Sir Francis Walsingham, England's spymaster general, has found new recruit fourteen-year-old Nathan Fox, an actor in the same company as young Will Shakespeare, he will prepare him to enter a new and shadowy world.