historical fiction

Presents a tale of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship "Amistad," describing her capture, her witness to a mutiny, and the Supreme Court trial that prompts her return to Africa.

In the early forties when nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II, sixth-grader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs.

Government troops force Cherokee Jesse Smoke and his family to relocate, setting them on the dangerous Trail of Tears.

The Agency, the all-female detective unit, assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a palace maid and fending off the attentions of the Prince of Wales are challenging enough, but when the prince witnesses a murder, Mary's case becomes antything but petty. Engineer and former flame James Easton has an assignment in the sewers, where someone is making illicit use of the tunnels. Mary will need James's help if she's going to catch a thief, solve a murder and avert disaster.

Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

Mary Quinn is asked to take on one more case for the Agency, to watch for the return of Mrs. Thorold, whose husband is dying in jail and who has a grudge against Mary's fiance and partner in crime-solving, James Easton.

As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.

A dramatic tale set on the last day of World War I traces the stories of a German storm trooper, an American airman, and a British Tommy whose war experiences are shaped by their teenage perspectives, nationalities, and friendship.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.