historical fiction

A graphic novel adaptation of Alexander Dumas's story of Philippe, the twin brother of King Louis XIV, who was taken from his mother and later imprisoned to keep him from challenging the throne of France.

Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.

After he is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, a sixteen-year-old orphan escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

Sixteen-year-old Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island in 1911 in the hopes of starting a new life, but after most of her family is sent back to Ireland, she must find her own way in a new country and fend for herself and her younger sister.

An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

Provides information for writers about various details of everyday life, government, war, the economy, and the society of nineteenth-century England.

Julia and Victoria, barely married before their husbands joined the Confederate Army, decide to bring some cheer into their home by making a wedding dress for their seventeen-year-old sister Claire Atwater, even though she has no intended groom, which becomes a beacon of hope and faith for the three young women.

Hubert, a young knight's squire sailing back to England from the Crusades, must take up arms again when infidels attack the ship, and he discovers his fight is not over when he finally reaches home only to find a friend facing execution.

A collection of alternate history stories by popular science fiction authors which explore how the world might be different if specific historical events were changed.

In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.