historical fiction

Miaka must enter her enemy's capital to confront her former friend and current rival, Yui; find her beloved, Tamahome; and beat General Nakago at his own game.

Searching for the remaining three Celestial Warriors in her quest to save her new country, Miaka wanders into a bandits' lair.

In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.

Victor and Konrad Frankenstein are inseparable twin brothers who stumble upon The Dark Library, where secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies are housed, but after their father forbids them to ever return to the library Konrad falls gravely ill and Victor seeks out a cure for his brother beyond traditional medicine.

When his father returns from the war in 1946, a ten year old boy and his family move from their home in a Montana town to an old, run-down farm in the middle of nowhere where they work hard trying to make ends meet.

Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar' daughter and the other becomes a man-eating entertainment act at the Colosseum.

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

Seventeen-year-old Josephine Best, having been to college and opened her own hairdressing shop, is not looking for love, but her head is turned by the attentions of two soldiers who have returned home to Michigan from the Civil War.

Just before the American Civil War, Belle Palmer escapes from slavery in the South to freedom in the North, where she meets and falls in love with Daniel Best.

Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.