historical fiction

A young man struggles to find a life for himself in the turbulent depression of the 1930s.

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

After the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, is forced to go into hiding because of Adolf Hitler's Tiegartenstrasse 4--T4--which was put in place to kill any mentally ill or disabled people.

In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.

In October 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth H?ơbener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.

NewFor eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated from his family and in a desperate race to escape the flames. The Hindenburg is doomed. And so, it seems, is Hugo. Will he survive this historic disaster?.

A fictionalized account of the 1884 lynching of fourteen-year-old Louie Sam, a Native American, by a group of men from the Washington Territory, told from the point of view of fifteen-year-old George Gillies and his best friend, whose fathers were part of the lynch mob that traveled into British Columbia to get what they saw as justice for the murder of a white Washington settler.

Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution.

Twelve-year-old Rosa and thirteen-year-old Jake form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

In 1940, David Sparsholt--a handsome, charismatic, and athletic young man--arrives at Oxford University to get a degree in engineering. Unaware of how his presence affects others, especially Evert Dax, a lonely son of a famous novelist who will become a novelist himself, David and Evert become friends, and that friendship will influence both their lives and the lives of others for generations.