historical fiction

Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.

On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.

The irrepressible Jacky Faber, recently arrived in Boston, finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and local residents angry at the arrival of hundreds of Irish immigrants on a ship owned by Faber Shipping Worldwide.

While traveling across the Texas countryside, fifteen-year-old Cal and his mother spy thousands of Mexican soldiers approaching, but when they reach the safest place that they can find--the Alamo--Cal worries that such a small group of soldiers will not be able to fight off an entire army.

Pony Express rider Matt Edgars is concerned about a war with the Paiutes when a number of Express stations are set on fire.

Sarah, a fourteen-year-old slave living in Maryland in the 1850s, tries to escape to freedom in the North through the Underground Railroad, knowing that her path to freedom will be filled with danger.

Ethan Michelson and his family survive an avalanche, the perils of an icy river, and battle a deadly fire in their pursuit of gold.

Best friends Hank and James camp out on the island of Oahu during the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Lieutenant Maynard and the men of the Royal Navy enlist the help of a local fisherman and his son to guide them through the shallow waters in their pursuit of Blackbeard; however, they didn't count on the boy's devotion to the notorious pirate.

In 1943, fifteen-year-old Robert Tourond sees a meteorite fall to Earth and is convinced it is a message to him that the superheroes in the comic books he reads are protecting his brothers, who are fighting overseas in the war. He gets a job delivering telegrams so he can buy more comic books to keep his brothers safe, but shortly after he discovers the contents of many of the telegrams, one is delivered to Robert's house.