historical fiction

In 1950s Norfolk, Virginia, as Carter and his sister watch their dying father struggle to remain cheerful, Carter decides to emulate Prince Namor, comic superhero, in order to inspire his father to stay alive.

When Jamie Carswell joins the 14th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment fighting in Vicksburg, Mississippi, he finds his cousin Althea living there, trying to make peace with her past and keep her family safe during the Union's siege.

In France during a time of witch-hunts, in a village with a corrupt priest, thirteen-year-old Laszlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl.

In a 1905 mill town, eleven-year-old twin sisters, Pauline, who goes to work with the rest of the family, and Arlene, whose crippled foot keeps her home doing the cooking, cleaning, and washing, are convinced that the other sister has an easier life until a series of incidents helps them see each other in a new light.

In the fall of 1636, Adam, fourteen-year-old heir to the House of Windjammer, must find a way to keep his family afloat after his father dies and tulip fever sweeps Amsterdam.

Snow, the daughter of a Welsh duke, takes refuge in London with a group of urban outcasts after her new stepmother tries to kill her, but Snow soon learns she is going to have to take charge of her own destiny when it becomes apparent her stepmother is not going to give up.

Two brothers touring Europe in the 19th century become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet.

King Solon the Red attempts to capture his runaway daughter Ettarde and force her into marriage with a rival king who has been threatening his reign.

Zellie faces a difficult decision that could cost her a job when her boss, the owner of a boarding house for the girls employed in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, asks her to spy on the young workers.

Sixteen-year-old Billy Calder, son of a British soldier and a Mohawk woman, leaves school to join Tecumseh in his efforts to prevent the Americans from taking any more land from the Indians in the Northwest Territory.