The story of the ten-year-old boy who becomes captain of a ship After his mother’s death, young David Glasgow Farragut is forced to leave home to live with Captain Porter and his wife.
Sacagawea, the Shoshoni woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark on their famed expedition, tells her life storyWhen Sacagawea's son asks her about her life, she isn't sure where to begin.
A teenage girl questions her principles after her brother is captured during the Revolutionary War Fourteen-year-old Samantha Byrd is an excellent shot—she’s even better than her brother at providing food for her family.
A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and recipient of the Florida Sunshine Award: In this absorbing chapter book, Ahyoka helps her father, Sequoyah, unlock the mystery of “talking leaves” to create the Cherokee alphabet Ahyoka is the daughter of Sequoyah, a silversmith who has given up most of his trade to focus on his true passion.
Nobody said New York City was easy, but for Tolley Holtz, it’s home Tolley Holtz would rather be exploring the city with his friends, talking about the Yankees, and discussing what President Roosevelt is going to do about the Depression than watching his little brother, Bubber.
Escaping from the terrors of World War II, Karin gets the chance for a new life in America-but she can't stop thinking about her mother, who she left behind in FranceKarin Levi's life in Paris was happy and normal.
A former child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace in an African nation in this “rip-roaring adventure story” by a Carnegie Medal winner (Publishers Weekly).
Step through the golden gates of childhood in Kate Douglas Wiggin’s classic, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Eleven-year-old Rebecca is leaving Sunnybrook Farm to live with her spinster aunts and become the educated daughter her family needs.
When Theodore's safe, predictable world is destroyed, his life-and his faith-are in dangerThirteen-year-old Theodore has lived in China all his life and never felt terror, until his father's missionary settlement is attacked and burned in the night.
Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe.
This retelling of the One Thousand and One Nights tale Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, set in tenth-century Baghdad, is told from the perspective of Marjana, the girl who saves Ali Baba, and brings a fresh perspective to the classic story!
While helping her granny Collette evacuate to a makeshift shelter in Brooklyn during Superstorm Sandy, Lily uncovers secrets of her grandmothers past as a member of the French Resistance during WWII.
A lonely young man discovers a new home-and a frightening secret-in an isolated English manor, in this "e;riveting [and] suspenseful"e; historical novel (School Library Journal).
It's one thing to be interested in history-it's another to thing to make itAndrew Tillet is just looking out for a younger classmate when he gets pulled into a heroic scheme a mission to return an abducted boy to his heartbroken mother.
A mysterious, broken-nosed cabby, a beautiful actress, and a villainous art heist have one thing in common—but the only one man who knows what it is has methods that are a little, shall we say .
Tending to a veteran's grave leads a boy on a search for his fatherThe battlefield at Gettysburg is a landscape of rolling hills, thickly wooded forests, and monuments to men who died here long ago.
From the ancient sewers of London to the heights of a barren attic prison, Andrew and Sara race to uncover a wicked plotThough he's usually more of a cricket fan, Andrew Tillet would never miss a chance to see American baseball played in London especially not in the company of his best friends, Sara Wiggins and Inspector Peter Wyatt.
Andrew and Sara can never escape a mystery-not even in New York CityVerna Tillet's new play is taking the American stage by storm, and that means young investigators Andrew Tillet and Sara Wiggins have traded London carriage rides for the rattling excitement of New York City's elevated railway.
Blink once for yes, twice for no, and three times for murderSometimes it seems like all the boys at school know about Andrew Tillet's friendship with Inspector Peter Wyatt of Scotland Yard.
Special effects might look like magic to the audience, but there's always someone behind a curtain pulling the stringsSomeone is targeting the best actresses in London, and the only way to keep Verna Tillet safe is to keep her off the stage until Andrew Tillet, Sara Wiggins, and Inspector Peter Wyatt can find out who the deadly killer is.
In the depths of the Depression, a young girl goes to live in the country Although the Depression has destroyed Detroit's economy, Elsa cannot imagine living anywhere else.
At the dawn of the Young Turk Revolution, an English girl goes on the adventure of a lifetimeFor years Julia has stared at her globe, dreaming of countries on the other side of the earth.
To save his family, a logger goes down the river—and brings along his wife and daughter When Annabel’s father sells their house in Detroit, she is thrilled by the idea of life on a farm.
As the Soviet Union crumbles, one ballerina dreams of ParisIt is 1991, and revolution is coming to the Soviet Union, but in Leningrad, life goes on as it always has.
In 1949 a special Valentine’s Day dance in small-town Nebraska teaches thirteen-year-old Addie about real love Kids in Addie’s seventh-grade class are starting to exchange rings and go steady, but Addie hates all that mush.
The arrival of a famous actress in twelve-year-old Addie’s small hometown makes the Easter of 1948 one she will never forget Pigtailed and bespectacled, Addie lives with her dad and her grandma in Clear River, Nebraska.
In Clear River, Nebraska, in 1947, the real meaning of Thanksgiving is friendship and forgiveness-can the holiday end an ancient feud between Addie's father and his nemesis?
It's Christmastime in 1946, and all Addie wants is a pair of cowboy boots and a Christmas treeTen-year-old Addie lives in Clear River, Nebraska, population fifteen hundred, with her stoic but loving father and quirky grandmother.
Charles Dickens's charming history of his homeland, spanning from antiquity through the 17th centuryIn this accessible history volume, Charles Dickens turns his talents to the saga of the United Kingdom.
Based on real-life events, a gripping historical novel from award-winning young adult author Jessie HaasTo Sue Gorham, life in Westminster West isn't fair, not at all.
An Agatha Award nominee for Best Children’s/Young Adult Mystery and a WILLA Award finalist for Best Children’s/Young Adult Book: In 1867, a twelve-year-old girl faces danger and disaster when she moves to the Colorado Territory with her widowed mother, who is hoping to start a newspaperEmma Henderson’s mother has changed since her father died fighting in the Civil War.
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery: In 1732, a twelve-year-old girl of Ojibwe and French heritage must clear her father of a stealing charge-or risk being separated from him foreverSuzette Choudoir always looks forward to summer, when her family leaves the Ojibwe people's winter camp and returns to the summer gathering place on La Pointe Island.
An eleven-year-old immigrant must clear her name when things start disappearing from a Boston settlement houseInnocenza Moretti's parents died in a fire when she was two.
At the outbreak of World War II, a twelve-year-old girl comes up with an idea to help the war effortAmerica has just entered World War II, and everyone in Charlotte Campbell’s family is doing his or her part, either abroad or in the Pennsylvania factory town where the Campbells live.
Winner of the Edgar Award: When her homing pigeons disappear while her father is fighting in World War I, a twelve-year-old girl suspects a German spy may be responsible With her father in France, fighting in the war, Pam Lowder has the responsibility of taking care of the family’s prize-winning homing pigeons on their farm.
As war rages in Europe, an eleven-year-old girl is swept into the New York suffragist movementEleven-year-old Susan O’Neal is sick of always having to look after her two younger sisters.
As the Civil War draws to a close, a young Virginia girl grieving over the death of her brother meets a Confederate deserterAs the Civil War rages nearby, Cassie Willis and her family struggle to scrape a living from their small Virginia farm, while Cassie's father and beloved brother, Jacob, are away fighting with the Confederate army.
