historical fiction

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The last execution

Based on the true story of the last execution in Denmark's history, this novel asks a question that plagues a small Danish town in 1853: does a fifteen-year-old boy deserve to be put to death?.

The painter's daughter

After being abandoned by her painter lover, pregnant Sophie marries his younger brother, a captain in the British Army, and soon finds her life upended.

The harmonica

Torn from his home and parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy starving in a concentration camp finds hope in playing Schubert on his harmonica, even when the commandant orders him to play.

I survived the battle of Gettysburg, 1863

In 1863, child slave Thomas and his sister Birdie journey north and meet up with Union soldiers who have orders to fight at Gettysburg.

I survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941

Eleven-year-old Danny Crane witnesses the bombing of Pearl Harbor and must find his way home in the midst of the terror, smoke, and chaos of the attack.

Koda

Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.

Family reminders

In 1890s Cripple Creek, Colorado, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wooden figurines and playing piano.

Mystery at Manzanar

a WWII internment camp story
Fifteen-year-old Tommy, having been forced into a Japanese internment camp with the rest of his family, investigates when another internee is attacked.

Secret weapons

a tale of the Revolutionary War
Fourteen-year-old Daniel is disappointed when his father makes him stay behind to work in his blacksmith shop instead of enlisting in the militia, but when Daniel discovers a horde of weapons in the backroom of the shop, Daniel's role becomes crucial to the fate of the American Revolution.

Ropes of revolution

the tale of the Boston Tea Party
A graphic novel adaptation of the events leading up to the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, about fifteen-year-old Benjamin and his friend, Joseph, who try to figure out a way to join the Sons of Liberty in the action.

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