historical fiction

Archie Wiggins and the other members of the Raven League are thrilled when they meet Buffalo Bill Cody himself, but when a policeman is attacked and Buffalo Bill is the prime suspect, the Raven League vows to prove Bill's innocence.

A grandmother tells her granddaughter the story of how she spent her sixteenth birthday trapped in a bathroom with her younger siblings after an air-raid attack on Germany during the end of World War II.

In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.

A fictional story featuring historical figures, in which George, a slave boy in 1850s St. Louis, gains his freedom with his mother, future White House dressmaker Elizabeth Keckly, and decides to use his liberty to help others escape.

Fourteen-year-old Ben Friedman and his family flee Nazi Germany in 1941 hoping to find a better life in America; but when Pearl Harbor is attacked, his friendship with a young Japanese-American boy becomes strained.

Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.

A fictional retelling of the story of Native American leader Geronimo's life after his last surrender, told from the point of view of his grandson.

Jenny Estes and her family escape the slavery of the Leopold plantation in 1840s Missouri and journey to Saltspring Island, Canada, only to encounter the hardships of scarlet fever, racial persecution, warring native tribes, and the challenges of homesteading.

Thirteen-year-old Sam endures harsh conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after being pressed into service aboard the HMS Miranda during the Napoleonic Wars.

Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man-eating entertainment act at the Colosseum.