historical fiction

Features American Girl Kit, who receives a new tree house for babysitting the horrible Pew children, but now she holds a secret that could hurt her father and friend and has to make a decision whether or not to tell the truth.

In England in 1340, Juliet resents Marguerite's snooty new friend Lady Enid, but when she learns that Enid's father has been unjustly accused of treason she volunteers for a dangerous mission to help clear his name.

In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.

For almost nine-year-old Hannah Perley of Fairfield, Connecticut, growing up means facing new challenges, both great and small--from saving the life of a baby lamb to helping the family prepare to send her brother Ben to join the colonial soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.

During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

The life of Almanzo Wilder in New York State in the 1860's, before he went west with his family to homestead land and to meet his future wife, Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Molly gets a lesson in what true friendship is when Emily, a young English girl, comes to stay with Molly's family during the bombing of London.

In the summer of 1942, when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands lives down the road from his family's house in Massachusetts, young William decides to take her some of the blueberries he has picked. Includes historical notes.

During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a mother and son shelter a young Confederate deserter. Includes a historical note on the incident.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.