historical fiction

The ragtag group of orphan boys known as the Baker Street Irregulars faces shady characters and seemingly real ghosts when they assist the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, in investigating the mysterious death of Greta Berlinger during a s?ance.

Writing in the diary which her father gave her, thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her father in Havana, Cuba in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida after immigrating there to be reunited with some relatives while leaving others behind.

Tania, recruited as a teen in 1942 by Vasily Zaitsev to seek out and shoot German officers, finds it difficult to kill until she learns the Nazis murdered her beloved grandparents, and her skill as a sniper leads to her being put in charge of a handpicked unit whose mission is to seize Field Marshall Paulus, commander-in-chief of the German army.

Pell Ridley, having left home on the day she was to marry her childhood sweetheart with the intention of finding a more fulfilling life, meets a poacher with whom she travels through the countryside, but soon becomes overwhelmed by her emotional ties to her family, home, and lover.

Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting, "The Last Supper," while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.

Ten-year-old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.

In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave.

Ludelphia Bennett, a determined, ten-year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home in an effort to find medical help for her sick mother, and she recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.

In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.

Young Princess Isabel of Spain bravely steps up to protect her younger brother, Alfonso, when he is accused of treason.