Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister think their future is clear: they're finally heading off for university.

Short-listed for the 1997 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice On the run from the authorities and the angry townspeople of Weasel City, British Columbia, in the early 1940s, teenage Loretta and her younger brother, Teddy, travel with their gambling stepfather, "e;Bean-Trap"e; Braden, as he strikes out in search of a good poker game in the Canadian and American West.

Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while selling flowers on the Liverpool docks.

The year is 1927, and the Merril children are once again in school - but one that's unlike any other.

2006 Word Guild Award - Winner, Young Adult Fiction Sophie Mallory's American family knows everything about fighting the British.

2009 Word Guild Award - Winner, Young Adult FictionIn the aftermath of the 1838 rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie Mallory's father is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in Australia.

Winner of the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Canadian girl about to make a cross-Canada move with her family.

Short-listed for the 1995 Silver Birch Award Eleven-year-old Josie Grun escapes from Communist East Germany with her mother and father one dark night in 1989 just months before the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down.

Shortlisted for the 2009 Red Maple Award and commended in Best Books for Kids & Teens After a shipwreck in 1809, Peter finds himself the victim of amnesia.

Just a Little Later With Eevo and Sim is the continuation of Once Upon a Time Long, Long Ago, the adventures of Eevo and Sim.

Fourteen-year-old Al is spending the summer on the shores of Ontario's James Bay with his eccentric archaeologist father.

Short-listed for the Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award, 2010 It is 1900, and 14-year-old Bertie McCross is a newspaper boy in downtown Toronto.

Plots, shots, flight, pursuit - all are part of this story from the exciting chapter in America's history when thousands of Loyalists fled to Canada to evade the vengeance of the American Revolutionaries.

Runner-up for the 2009 Chocolate Lily Book Award and commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens In 1909, 13-year-old Luc Godin arrive in British Columbia from Quebec only to discover that the house they thought they'd move into hasn't been built.

After his "e;wonderful airship"e; crashes near St.

Maggie Davis is a young girl who lives in Chester, Nova Scotia, near Halifax, when her beloved Uncle Nick is killed by diabetes.

"e;Startled, Mishbee gasped, frozen with horror.

In his third young adult title, John Wilson takes on the rich territory of the 1845 Franklin expedition.

Just a Little Later With Eevo and Sim is the continuation of Once Upon a Time Long, Long Ago, the adventures of Eevo and Sim.

Fourteen-year-old Ben Random has always been drawn to the ships that skim the blue waters of Lake Ontario off the shores of York, the capital of Upper Canada.

Written to help address the dearth of age appropriate material focusing on the Vietnam conflict, Heroes Next Door Hornet 24 gives the middle school and young adult reader a window into the lives of helicopter pilots during that conflict.

The book is a collection of intrigues, emotional roller-coaster ride, and passion without limits.

Little Running Deer has managed to escape from the reservation where he has spent his entire life.

Seventeen-year-old Anna Elizabeth Owens is a typical teen-age girl growing up in Morrisville, North Carolina, until the day her great-grandmother requests her presence at her bedside.

This Is as Good as It Gets is the sixth book that I have written for Xlibris.

Reading an entire textbook on the American Revolution might be too overwhelming for kids.

There's much to learn about Ancient Rome, aside from their myths and architecture.

Activists are people who managed to change the status quo, which they believe are unfair.

Colonial America was a time of new beginnings and discoveries.

The military are a brave people.

In this book, you will learn about the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia, now known as Iraq.

Who were the Aztecs and why did they deserve a spot in history books?

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "e;ancient Greece"e;?

Learn from the ancient Egyptians, not just in terms of pyramid building and mummification.

This time, you'll be reading about the lives and times of China's early leaders namely Mao Zedong, Empress Wu, Kublai Khan and Emperor Puyi.

China has such a colorful history, literally and figuratively.

Read through the highlights of the Industrial Revolution in this awesome ebook collection.

The Inca civilization, otherwise known as the Inca Empire, was once the largest in pre-Columbian America.

In this ebook, you will be reading about some sad facts from the Middle Ages.

Some structures are so strong that they remain standing hundreds of years after they were built.

Ancient Rome was a melting pot of cultures.

What can you learn the daily lives of ancient Egyptians, Mayans, Aztecs and Greeks?

The Mayans are indigenous in Mexico and Central America.

The struggles experienced during the American Revolution gave birth to personalities and organizations that now mark history books.

The French Revolution was a trying time for the French.

There is much to learn about ancient societies.

The French Revolution happened from 1789 to 1799.

There's nothing really great about the Depression because many Americans suffered when they fell into hard times.

What were the ancient civilizations in Asia?

Wars are never good news, not now and definitely not in the 1900s.