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 forgetPigtailed 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 responsibleWith 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.
Gold fever sweeps the country as a twelve-year-old aspiring writer travels to the Yukon with her family and best friend, fighting natural disasters and a clever thiefAfter traveling from San Francisco by steam ship, Hetty McKinley, her best friend, Alma, and their families prepare for the five-hundred-mile trek north to the gold fields of the Yukon.
Set in 1860 as the first wagon trains rumble into the American West, this adventure-filled novel centers on a frontier girl and the beloved pony she tries to save Born in the back of a covered wagon traveling west from Vermont, Annie Dawson dreams of someday seeing what’s on the eastern side of the great Mississippi.
A twelve-year-old girl searches for answers when she finds an abandoned baby in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906Clara Curfman is awakened from a recurring swimming dream by her big, furry sheepdog, Humphrey.
The Kansas prairie in 1878 is the setting for this mystery about a girl who gets a new stepmother-a woman who may not be what she appearsIda Kate Deming lives on the Kansas prairie with her father.
Gold fever sweeps the country as a twelve-year-old aspiring writer travels to the Yukon with her family and best friend, fighting natural disasters and a clever thiefAfter traveling from San Francisco by steam ship, Hetty McKinley, her best friend, Alma, and their families prepare for the five-hundred-mile trek north to the gold fields of the Yukon.
On a rocky island outpost off the coast of Maine, a young girl once kept the lighthouse lamps burning for days while her father was held on the mainland by a violent storm.
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.
Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman returns with a brilliantly realised and truly accessible retelling of the book described as Dickens' "e;most perfect"e; novel.
