Buck Summerhill, a young soldier from West Virginia, faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg knowing that his two cousins, Curtis and Mason, may be fighting against him in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Even though the odds are against her and the Civil War has ruined her home and given her a view of the darker side of humanity, thirteen-year-old India Moody continues to aspire to become a scientist and attend Oberlin College.
In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
While the Mau Mau rebellion threatens the British settlers living in Kenya during the 1950s, Mathew and Mugo maintain their friendship, despite their different races, but during these tense times, a single act of betrayal could alter everything.
A writer's guide to life in Colonial America, covering food, fashion, family life, medicine, religion, politics, and social structure in the period from 1607 to 1783.
Imagines what might have happened to a dog befriended by author Jack London during the 1897 Yukon gold rush, and that served as the model for Buck from his novel "Call of the Wild.".
During the Revolutionary War, Jem Emerson, a fifteen-year-old from New Jersey, is torn between her love for her family and her feelings for her twenty-four-year-old tutor, John Reid, known as a Tory.
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who took opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.
a novel about growing up during the Civil Rights era
Greenberg, David
2008
A fictionalized account of the author's years growing up in Great Neck, New York, with his father, a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, during the turbulent civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s when African-Americans were struggling to attain equality.
