Historical Fiction

At the tender age of eight, chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay....

Books 1-8 of the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series plus an interview with Mary Pope Osborne! Meet Jack and Annie! Jack and his younger sister, Annie, are just regular kids. But when they discover a tree house in the woods, something magical happens. In books 1-4, Jack and...

This timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge....

When Nazi soldiers come to the orphanage Felix decides to escape and make his way home....

Super Sleuth, from Children's author David Walliams. Dilly loves a good murder. Not a REAL murder. A made-up murder. One you would find in a murder-mystery novel. Sherlock Holmes is her favourite detective. She even named her dog Watson after his faithful companion, and trained him to sniff out...

The town of Wirrawee is emerging from war, slowly, like a flower after a cold snap....

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the...

Books 17–24 of the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series! These eight titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure. Parents, teachers, and librarians hail the chapter-book series as a tool to promote reading, as even the most...

The next compelling chapter in the life of Felix, hero of the award-winning Once, Then, After, Soon and Now....

It is 1940 and William, 12, Edmund, 11, and Anna, nine, aren't terribly upset by the death of the not-so-grandmotherly grandmother who has taken care of them since their parents died. But the children do need a guardian....

She was brave and curious, but she had never been able to fly. Elara wanted to have wings of her own so much that she occasionally dreamt of them. She watched the Sky Sprites dance through the air, circling the tops of trees and flying over the beautiful lakes.

This uplifting chronicle of a boy’s recovery from blindness is a moving reflection of the ways that friendship can permanently join the lives of two very different people....

The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Children's Blizzard or the Great Blizzard of 1888 caught people completely by surprise and resulted in 235 fatalities, including several children in one-room schoolhouses....

It is early spring, a turbulent, perilous time of sudden storms, frozen river fractures and drifting ice. Fleeing from a demon intent on devouring his souls, Wolf is swept out to sea far from the forest and his pack. The ocean, too, teems with danger....

A surprising twist brings Amy and Dan back to New England for their first mission on U.S. soil since the beginning of the Clue hunt....

Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie is the seventh book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. In Little Town on the Prairie, the young town of De Smet has survived the long, harsh winter of...

In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people…people like the boy, Salva Dut…caught in the middle....

The eighth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor. Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but she knows that her earnings...

Here is a sequel to Once, written and narrated by one of Australia's most popular children's authors....

No one would accuse 11-year-old Caddie Woodlawn of being dainty and ladylike. In spite of her mother’s best efforts, Caddie is as wild as the wind....

Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning masterpiece with an introduction written and read by Jacqueline Woodson, just in time for its 40th Anniversary! Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and...

In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided country It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two...

When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more than gold and gemstones....

Begin an engaging journey with Greek Mythology for Kids. This is more than a collection of myths—it’s a time-travel adventure with our curious hero, Albert, and his time-travel compass.

The dream pushed him forward softly. When Lior reached out to the pedestal, he felt the strands of light alter as he touched them. As they pulled it apart, the object came into view: a little silver glass mirror that was just a little bigger than his palm.

Middle School meets Percy Jackson in this new offering from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson, where Greek gods task an ordinary twelve-year-old with a big mission. Nick Andino isn’t exactly “hero” material. He’s perfectly happy working at his family’s Greek diner...

10 campos de concentración. 10 lugares donde pasas hambre, eres torturado y trabajas hasta la extenuación. Nadie imagina que se pueda sobrevivir. Pero es a lo que Yanek Gruener se enfrenta. Es un niño polaco en la década de 1930 y está a merced de los invasores nazis. Todo lo que tenía y todo lo que amaba le ha sido arrebatado de la manera más brutal. Y el mismo Yanek es tomado prisionero y en el brazo le tatúan B-3087, su número de prisionero.

Als Bo eine glänzende Silbermünze im Schlamm der Themse findet, glaubt sie, den Fluss sprechen zu hören. Doch er weiß von einer zweiten Münze, und gemeinsam machen sie sich auf die Jagd nach ihr, ehe der alte Muncaster ihnen zuvorkommt. Denn auch er hat es auf die magischen Münzen abgesehen. Werden Bo und Billy schneller sein und das Wertvollste zurückbekommen, was sie je verloren haben?

“Lucas DuBois is proof that a mere kitten can be the bravest of lions by always standing up for what's right.” —Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee The acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Pax delivers an historical novel about an orphan during WWII who...

As the Civil War begins, twin siblings David and Daria Fisk experience drastic changes in their lives. Their physician father leaves home to serve for the Union Army. Then their mama decides to turn their home into a boarding house to support the family financially.

From the three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winning author of The Skin I'm In comes a poignant story about a southern girl far from home at an elite girls boarding school in the north, who must find the courage to be herself and to dream of a brighter future, set against the backdrop of the...

A poignant novel in verse about a Hmong girl losing and finding home in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. For fans of Jasmine Warga and Veera Hiranandani. "As gripping as it is informative and as beautiful as it is heartbreaking, A Year Without Home does what all great books do: spark curiosity...

Alfie and Kat’s school trip takes an unexpected turn when they’re whisked back to a Viking village in this exciting time-slip adventure from bestselling author Karen McCombie. Things take a weird turn for Alfie and Kat when they get separated from the rest of their group on a school trip to...

White House kids Clara and Marissa Suarez find themselves on the hunt for a stolen eagle sculpture and on the front lines of the labor movement in this noir-style mystery that takes them through the streets of Great Depression-era Washington, DC. Along with Roosevelt grandchildren Buzzie and Sistie, the chase takes Clara and Marissa from the factory floor to the skies with Amelia Earhart, through encounters with historical figures—and keeps listeners guessing up to its dramatic end on a river cruise with Franklin and Eleanor.

Catapult into an inspirational and heroic, heart-pounding, action-packed mystery adventure that will put you on the edge of your seat as you race through the treacherous caverns and dense forests of Razorback Ridge. Set in the late 1980s, fourteen-year-old cattle rancher Tater Thompson, his sister Molly, and best friend Parley now find themselves trapped deep inside the caves and caverns of the remote Sawtooth Mountains.

A girl learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational audiobook about racism, community action, and resilience by two New York Times bestselling authors. Olivia can’t wait to invite her friends to the 62nd annual Main Street Block Party. But when...

The silver light that had been flowing freely between the branches became softer and less bright as they walked, and the light surrounding them got darker. Lian could see that the Lumerin's brightness was fading, even though it tried hard to stay bright. Its wings twitched as if it were experiencing the burden of the losing force. The Lumerin smiled at him when he asked how he was doing and told him that although if guardians of light faded when the magical world was in trouble, hope and courage always brought them back to life.

Uncle Sam, a cavalry horse, travels to Louisiana in the months before America enters World War II. Sam and his best friend, Sergeant Ed, take part in the Louisiana Army Maneuvers, a mock battle featuring infantry, tanks, jeeps, and traditional cavalry units. As the battles end and Pearl Harbor nears, Uncle Sam and his friends escape into the piney woods of western Louisiana where they become the forerunners of the famous Fort Polk wild horse herd.

Cléo te raconte ici une nouvelle enquête menée par sa grand-mère Noémie et son amie Mona, en 1967. Mme Gramond, le sévère censeur de leur lycée, semble cacher un secret. Intriguées, les deux filles se lancent dans l'aventure : lettres anonymes, salle murée, tiroir secret, pages jaunies oubliées depuis des années... Elles soupçonnent une affaire de chantage, mais comment résoudre cette énigme qui prend sa source dans un passé lointain?

An ancient curse. An invisible dragon. A mysterious prophecy. Seth’s parents have secrets they won’t share with him. Why did the King kick them out of the garden and curse the land? And can the curse be broken? Finding answers to Seth’s questions will prove more dangerous than he imagined. Can he discover the truth before the dragon destroys him? Frank Peretti meets The Jesus Storybook Bible in this action-packed biblical fiction story that will inspire readers to identify lies of the dragon and to put their trust in the dragon slayer.