historical fiction

A young Canadian girl uses her diary to record the events surrounding the December 1917 explosion that destroyed her small town in Nova Scotia and her own struggles to rebuild her life and family.

In 1948, Nikko Spirakis, twelve, loves baseball but must get past his hard-working immigrant parents--and the rhino in the outfield--to become a batboy for the local minor league team.

Presents in verse the story of Maria who wishes to become a glassblower but her father will not allow it and is instead given the responsibility of marrying into nobility. A new young glassblower arrives on the island of Murano and when Maria is drawn to him, her already existing web of emotions becomes even more complicated.

In the summer of 1943, Frangie, Rainy, and Rio are fiercely fighting their own personal battles while battling Nazi Germany. They have learned what they are willing to do as women to save themselves and each other, and the consequences of their actions. Now they and their fellow female soldiers are heading to the front lines on the Italian isle of Sicily, to fight alongside male soldiers in an endless siege. They face bigotry, anti-Semitism, and horrible conditions, while coming face to face with the brutality of war.

It is 1944, the sixth of June. D-Day. Rio, Frangie, and Rainy, all Silver Star recipients, have fought in North Africa and Sicily, and now they will need all that experience to survive Omaha Beach, the forests of H?rtgen, and the Eifel.

Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.

Abandoned to the workhouse after the death of her guardians, Cora Parry refuses to accept her fate. Under the tuition of persuasive street-rat Fletch, Cora finds herself reluctantly drawn deep into the Victorian underworld. As she is gradually seduced into a life of crime, Cora creates a persona for herself?Carrie?allowing her to separate her uneasy conscience from her actions, but soon things are spiraling out of control. Carrie is committing acts of crime that Cora knows she can't possibly have done. Where does Carrie end and Cora begin? Who is really in control, and where will it end?.

While her father is away fighting the Normans and other Irish clans, nine-year-old Lara works hard to help harvest food and also cares for the pregnant gray mare that she loves.

In 1603, thirteen-year-old John Rice travels to London to become an apprentice with the King's Men theater troupe. There, John studies and plays the role of women in Shakespeare's plays and falls in love with Alexander, a fellow actor who had grown to old to play the female roles. Presented as a fictional memoir of a real "boy player" of the King's Men.

In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches him how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, as Noah pushes Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.