historical fiction

Seaman, a Newfoundland dog, is purchased by Meriwether Lewis in the early 1800s, and soon finds himself a member of the crew on the grand and historic exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.

In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.

Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.

Presents the fictionalized diary of the highly unconventional Kristina who became queen of Sweden in the seventeenth century.

Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue.

Sam Deal and his horse, Ginger, help an African-American lifesaving crew rescue shipwreck victims off the coast of North Carolina in 1896.

In Massachusetts in 1771, seven-year-old Olivia learns about freedom from her father's slave, Mingo, who was promised that he'd be freed when the tide was low enough that he could walk to a certain spot offshore.

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

Each of four girls knows what it feels like to be different, and as they become friends, they discover something important about themselves and each other.

In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.