In 1938, with the help of a lady doctor and an aging, card-cheating, dice-rolling horse thief, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.
In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a place for herself in a world with limited options for women.
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
Abigail Lawrence, a tavern mistress in 1777 New Jersey, enters a shadowy and dangerous world of spies and traitors when she attempts to solve the murder of a man she found impaled on a sword in her establishment before the British use the incident as an excuse to take over her property.
In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.
After her father breaks up her engagement to the unscrupulous Sir Geoffrey Blandon, Lady Rose Summer attends a last-chance soiree at Telby Castle in order to find a husband, but when a guest is found dead under mysterious conditions, Rose teams up with investigator Harry Cathcart to solve the murder.
From her childhood in Martinique, Josephine knew that she would someday be "more than a queen," and she eventually fulfills her destiny at the side of Napoleon Bonaparte as Empress of the French.
In 1959 fifteen-year-old Dove, the daughter of a prosperous orange grower in Benevolence, Florida, feels increasingly uneasy after learning of acts of racism against the African American orange pickers by those close to her.
the story of Oney Judge, George Washington's runaway slave
Rinaldi, Ann
2002
Oney Judge, having been a loyal servant to Martha Washington for twenty years, comes to the realization that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom.
