historical fiction

After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.

Decades after being shot down in Occupied Europe, World War II veteran Marshall Stone returns to the crash site, where he finds himself remembering what happened in the days following the crash, when local residents, including a young woman in a blue beret, risked their lives to help him escape from the Nazis, and vows to find out what happened to his rescuers.

In 1756, as a deadly comet hurtles toward London, Dr. Sabian Blake and his fourteen-year-old housemaid, Agetta, struggle against dark forces that seek an ancient, powerful book in Blake's possession that would enable them to carry out an evil plan in which Agetta unknowingly plays a pivotal role.

Michelangelo's career as a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet is traced from his promising boyhood apprenticeships to the painter Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo through all the years of his genius.

Phoebe, a slave in the Philipse household in colonial New York, must decide on the right course of action when her friend Cuffee is implicated in a reputed slave uprising.

In this novel of Paris in the 1920s, Carolyn Keene and Frank Dixon (pseudonymous authors of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys) are imagined solving mysteries among famous expatriate writers of the era.

Bronwen Llyr and her sister Kathryn find themselves trying to thwart a Rebel conspiracy that threatens both their lives at the beginning of the Civil War.

On his way to medical school in England, sixteen-year-old Peter McCall is kidnapped by pirates and held for ransom.

During the Great Depression, Hank Proctor has to put aside his dreams of becoming a doctor to care for his parents, amidst worry that his father will do something desperate.

Sasha and his friends fear what the future will bring under Hitler's rule.