historical fiction

Presents Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel about a respected doctor whose experiments change him into a deranged murderer; and contains over 270 SAT vocabulary words and pronunciation guide.

Describes how high school teachers and librarians can teach American history using trade books and databases, with lesson plans.

A sixteen-year-old girl, having run away from her African village to be with the brother of the man she was suppose to marry, is taken aboard a Dutch slave ship and brought to New Orleans where she struggles to adapt to the life of a slave and hopes to be reunited with her lover.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

Sapphire, having inherited the qualities of perseverance and strength from her mother, a woman forced into slavery in 1749, passes on those traits to successive generations of African-American women as they struggle to triumph over rape, humiliation, poverty, and scandal.

A graphic novel adaptation of the Arthurian legend that depicts King Arthur as a teenager.

On Bourbon Island off the coast of Madagascar, a French ornithologist and his assistant are caught up in an adventure involving slavery, colonialism, and the last days of the great pirates.

Charts the lives of two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, who come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom on a desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California.

The orphan Takeo has been claimed by the Tribe and held against his will, forced to work as an assassin and leave behind his beloved Shirakawa, leading him to fight for his freedom, even if it may cost him his life.

The author draws upon the history of the 1832 slave rebellion in Jamaica to tell the story of July, a young slave girl, who is taken in as a house servant by her British overseer and subsequently abused.