historical fiction

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The horse from the sea

an epic horse story
2005
In 1588 Ireland, fourteen-year-old Nora Donovan risks her life to rescue a boy and a stallion from a Spanish vessel shipwrecked on the beach.

Pandora of Athens

399 B.C.
2004
In 399 B.C. in Athens, thirteen-year-old Pandora dreads her upcoming marriage to a man twice her age, but a chance meeting with the philosopher Socrates encourages her to question traditional female roles and to seek her own truth.

Escape to West Berlin

2004
In 1961 East Berlin, thirteen-year-old Heidi copes with the stress of a crisis with her best friend, government pressure on her father to leave his West Berlin job, her mother's pregnancy, and the ever-present threat of the closing of the border with West Berlin.

Piratica

being a daring tale of a singular girl's adventure upon the high seas
2004
Artemesia finally escapes the prim and proper world of finishing schools and sets out to win her mother's title as pirate queen of the seas until she meets her match against Goldie Girl, the treacherous captain of the pirate ship "Enemy.".

Gracie and the emperor

2005
Gracie, a poor eleven-year-old girl whose life begins to mysteriously change when Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to her island, is shocked to learn that the fallen emperor--the monster in the frightening stories she has heard all her life--is her benefactor.

Resistance

2005
In German-occupied Normandy, France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that her mother is exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger brother, to great danger by volunteering for more perilous assignments in the resistance movement.

Mutiny's daughter

2004
Gives voice, as a teenager returned to the Christian family in England, to the half-Tahitian daughter of the British ship Bounty's second-in-command and mutineer, Fletcher Christian.

A ride into morning

the story of Tempe Wick
2003
When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it.

Death and the arrow

2003
After his friend Will, a pickpocket in London in 1715, is murdered as part of a series of mysterious deaths, fifteen-year-old Tom Marlowe asks his friend Dr. Harker to help find the killer.

Atticus of Rome

30 B.C.
2004
In ancient Rome, Atticus, a young slave purchased by a wealthy and powerful lawyer, finds that he is completely invisible to the people from whom he must gather information in order to help foil a plot against the Emperor.

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