Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

This humorous, historical adventure is a fanciful look behind the scenes of our nations most venerated home, the White House.

Its 1836, and Ann Arbor folks are rallying support for their booming town, set down in the midst of grape arbors and forests in Michigan.

Benjamin Nathan Tuggle thinks hes like any other twelve-year-old growing up in eastern Kentucky in 1976until he learns he can travel back in time.

Two fifth-graders growing up in post-Civil War California, Mandy McGandy and Jebediah Wu form an unlikely friendship that teaches them about bravery, justice, and the freedom of adventure.

During a time when men think the stars are little children of the moon, thirteen-year-old Zim-ri is sold into slavery by his uncaring, debt-ridden father.

American history can be confusingand theres so much of it to learn!

In 1949, Ruthie is a skinny, flat-chested, twelve-year-old tomboy with a metal front tooth living in the Washington Heights section of New York City.

Barefoot, a memoir and sequel to Road to Mound Grove, continues the story of Betty Jean and her family in rural southeastern Oklahoma as they deal with the struggles of life during the Depression and benefits of Roosevelts New Deal leading up to World War II.

Go on an Easter journey with Wiggles the Rabbit, an Easter Bunny who follows his friend Jesus through the events of the very first Easter!

Everyone is goneeveryone except young James and Sarah Dyer and their faithful companion, Duke.

In the early 1800s, the French and the British were at war.

When Texian leaders began making plans for Texas to become a country, they gathered in a place known as Washington-on-the-Brazos.

The Missouri Compromise was intended to clearly separate slave and free states while ensuring balance between the two types of states.

In March 1846, about 4,000 U.

The 1800s saw the United States almost triple in size.

In the 1790s, trade was a major part of the U.

When President Thomas Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition west, Lewis wrote a letter to his friend William Clark.

The Indian Removal Act promised Native Americans money and supplies to move west to an area called Indian Territory.

AV2 Fiction Readalong by Weigl brings you timeless tales of mystery, suspense, adventure, and the lessons learned while growing up.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language.

Cheetah boasts that, because he can run faster than any other animal, he is the real king of the beasts.

Georgian England, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, just four years after the Battle of Waterloo.

Hannah is a spirited horse who has a lot riding on her!

';If ever there was a book primed to show American children why families from other countries are often desperate to reach our shores, this is it.

Can two kids survive the events that follow a dangerous circus train wreck?

A Kirkus Best Book of the Year ';A poignant and hopeful glimpse at the past for today's curious readers.

In 1911 Pennsylvania Coal Country, can Corey overcome the panic attacks that prevent him from helping support his family?

High-spirited young Jane is excited to be part of Mr.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019 A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, gives up their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing look at the aftermath of World War II by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata.

Based on a true World War II story, Isaiah Campbell tells a charming mystery about a mishap at a magic show at a POW campfeaturing magic trick how-to diagrams throughout.

An instant New York Times bestseller!

When nine-year-old Sarah Smith fetches potatoes from the shed, she hears an unusual noise and senses something is different.

It is the 1930s, in the midst of the Great Depression, and ten-year-old Charlie Whitman is about to become a chore boy.

World War II is over, her father is home safe and Annie McLeods parents are building a new life.

It is 1942, and Manny Keefer, cut from his sophomore basketball team, decides to volunteer to be team manager to keep up with his friends Wally and Felix, who are still on the team.

Tamie Hoshiko is just six years old when her father, Shizuwo, dies in Kumamoto City, Japan, in 1938.

The timeless tale of a horse named BeautyWith his fine black coat, his one white foot, and the distinctive white star on his forehead, Black Beauty is a magnificent creature, the pride of Squire Gordon's country estate.

A moving coming-of-age story from three-time Newbery Medal winner Zilpha Keatley SnyderThe tenth day of June in the year of Our Lord, 1907.

Imprisoned by Abreha and forced to help plan Aksum's invasion, Telemakos desperately tries to regain his freedomTelemakos, descendent of British and Aksumite royalty, has been accused of treason by Abreha, ruler of Himyar, and imprisoned on the upper levels of his twelve-story palace.

Telemakos may have survived his capture in Afar, but his dangerous journey is far from over .

A deadly plague rages through Aksum, and only one boy can uncover the traitor who spreads the disease and threatens to destroy the kingdomTelemakos, a descendant of both British and Aksumite rulers, has always been an outcast, but his resolve, loyalty, and bravery have never failed his royal heritage.

World War II comes to a small Pennsylvania town in this thought-provoking novel about a peace-loving Quaker family War may be raging in Europe, but in Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, peace is being waged.

A special edition of three of John R.

Caught between two kingdoms, Princess Goewin must balance the demands of leadership with those of her own happinessWith her own kingdom in upheaval and her vicious aunt out for blood, Goewin, princess of Britain and daughter of High King Artos, flees to the British-allied African kingdom of Aksum.

Brave Medraut is a fitting heir to the throne-but he can never be king-in this fantasy retelling of the legend of Mordred from the author of Code Name Verity.

2020 is the Year of the Rat!

A young English boy stranded on the far side of the ocean must survive Indians and enemies in the perilous New WorldMiles Philips is but a lad of thirteen when he sets sail aboard the Jesus of Lubeck from Plymouth on the second day of October, 1567.

Shen of the Sea is a collection of short stories written by Arthur Bowie Chrisman and illustrated by Else Hasselriis.

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A boy volunteer in the Texas struggle for independence, during 1835-1836, when the Texas colonists threw off the rule of Mexico and established, under the guidance of the bluff Sam Houston, their own free republic which today is the great Lone Star State.