historical fiction

In 1849, twelve-year-old Annie is left all alone after her father travels west in search of gold and her mother and brother die, and after she is taken in by a Wampanoag woman, Annie learns a shocking truth about her past.

As the conflict in Languedoc, also called Occitan, intensifies, Raimon, having escaped the pyre, suppresses his longing to find his beloved Yolanda and, together with Parsifal, carries the Blue Flame to the mountains where it serves to rally loyal Occitanians to organize against the formidable French forces set to invade their beloved country.

Twelve-year-old Twig, a Spirit Dreamer who can see into the future, teams up with best friend Greyhawk and the unpopular shaman Screech Owl to warn villagers of an impending natural disaster. Includes a reader's guide.

In the 1970s, twelve-year-old Chili Sue Mahoney longs to escape her tiny Kentucky home town and see the world, but she also learns to recognize beauty in the people and places around her.

In seventeenth-century England, cousins Emilia and Luka are the only members of their gypsy family to escape imprisonment and must venture out on their own to find six lucky charms that should restore the family's good fortune and set their relatives free.

Though he would rather pursue his talent as a musician, eighteen-year-old Dinadan is forced to follow his older brother Tristram's path and become a knight in the time of King Arthur.

The ragtag group of orphan boys known as the Baker Street Irregulars faces shady characters and seemingly real ghosts when they assist the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, in investigating the mysterious death of Greta Berlinger during a s?ance.

Fifteen-year-old Nell is rescued from her impoverish life with her family in London due to her resemblance to King Edward the Third's daughter, Princess Joan, but when the plague takes the life of Joan, Nell is forced by Joan's brother to take on the princess's identity full-time.

The Baker Street Irregulars return to help Sherlock Holmes with a strange mystery involving murder, abduction, and a search for lost treasure, and when a personal friend of Holmes disappears, the gang tries to determine whether there is a traitor in their ranks.

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.