historical fiction

It's 1944 and Molly McIntire's world is at war. Dad is overseas helping wounded soldiers, and Mom's working for the Red Cross.

Six of the stories about Kirsten in the American Girls series.

In 1916 on an island in Lake Superior, Carl builds himself a boat by bartering with the other islanders for parts and labor.

A novel based on the experiences of Suzanne David Hall, who, as a teenager in Nazi-occupied France, worked as a spy for the French Resistance while training to be an opera singer.

In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.

In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.

On an ocean liner headed to Europe in 1906, Samantha and Nellie set out to find an archaeologist's legendary sapphire that has gone missing, investigating every first-class passenger. Includes an informational section on ocean liner travel in this period and a glossary of French words used in the story.

In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs.

A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.