19th century

Charts the rise of capitalism in the United States in the three decades following the end of the Civil War, discussing how influential men, including J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, shaped the country and the economy with their ideas about money, wealth, and trade.

Readers will be transported to the Oregon Trail, when many aspects of kids' lives were very different than they are today.

A kind and well-respected doctor can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he's created.

An orphan girl who accepts employment as a governess finds herself involved in a family secret and in love with her employer.

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

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.

In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.

Josey, born to a runaway slave mother and a white father, becomes caught in the tide of history when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaches her and a day of supposed freedom turns into one of unfathomable violence.

In nineteenth century England a young orphan escapes from the workhouse and goes to live with a gang of thieves. Simplified to a vocabulary of 1800 words.