Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring missionthis time to search for sunken Spanish gold.

The powerful tale of a sheltered girl's daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.

Mary Downing Hahn combines powerful characters, dark secrets, and breathtaking suspense in a compelling Civil War-era story readers won't soon forget.

Sis Goose is a beloved member of Luli's family, despite the fact that she was born a slave.

A village girl seeking friendship is swept up into the Salem Witch Trials in award-winning author Ann Rinaldi's young adult novel, A Break with Clarity.

After leaving the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston--under dire circumstances, of course--Jacky Faber boards a whaling ship bound for London, where she hopes to find her beloved Jaimy.

';Carefully researched and lovingly written, Rinaldi's latest presents a girl indentured to John and Abigail Adams during the tense period surrounding the 1770 Massacre.

A novel of the Shoshone woman’s epic journey with Lewis and Clark from an American Book Award winner: “A grand adventure .

Jennie Hodgers dressed as a boy for the first time in order to help support her impoverished Irish family with a shepherds wages.

A 2005 Newbery Honor Book It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine.

When Senmut, a young stone sculptor, is exiled for life to the gold mines of Nubia, he must count on all his skills in order to survive.

The award-winning author Scott O'Dell brings Sacagawea's story to life, giving us a breathtaking account of this young heroine's role in an American saga.

In this Newbery Honorwinning novel, Gary D.

A tale of two brothers in fifteenth-century Korea from theNewbery Medal winner and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Long Walk to Water.

Washington Post 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection!

Orphan gangs in London's Cheapside?

Long before they became famous writers, Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama.

Someone is smuggling secrets out of the Kennewicketts'lab and sabotaging their experiments, putting everyone at the Amazing Automated Inn at risk.

Cheryl Blackford's debut novel is set in England during World War II and told from the dual perspectives of ten-year-old Lizzie, a homesick girl evacuated from bomb-blitzed Hull to the remote Yorkshire valley, and Elijah, a local gypsy boy.

Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block.

Thirteen-year-old Jessamine Grace and her mother make a living as sham spiritualists-until they discover that Jess is a mesmerist and that she really can talk to the dead.

Jacky Faber is framed as passing confidential U.

For Cleo Berry, the people dying of the Spanish Influenza in cities like New York and Philadelphia may as well be in another countrythats how far away they feel from the safety of Portland, Oregon.

Its 1968, and war is not foreign to seventeen-year-old Ashe.

Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.

Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide.

Kate Witherspoon has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents.

The two volumes of Celtic folk tales collected by the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) introduced the children of the world to the special vision and color, the unique magic of the Celtic folk imagination.

This powerful and poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows an Arab American girl named Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendshipand herself.

The only thing more dangerous than a king is his heir in this first English translation of the romantic tragedy that inspired the popular TV series from one of China's best-known authors of heartbreakperfect for readers of Captive Prince and Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.