Historical Fiction

It's tough surviving in Hell. But sometimes Hell can be a haven....

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty 12 miles from home. She is very homesick but keeps at it....

After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own, the Diviners find themselves wanted by the US government, and on the brink of war with the King of Crows. While Memphis and Isaiah run for their lives from the mysterious Shadow Men, Isaiah receives a startling vision....

Escape through a maze of deception, betrayal, and death is the key to survival for thirteen rebellious colonies that dare to fight tyranny and win their independence. Powerful forces seek to assassinate General George Washington as the unstoppable British fleet sails into New York Harbor.

Mercenary Casia Greythorne cares about two things: completing whatever her latest job is and earning enough coin to buy the expensive medicine that's keeping her mentor alive. So when the king himself offers her a job, she can't resist the massive reward he offers....

Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom in ancient Egypt, under the rule of Queen Hatshepsut....

Something dark and evil has awakened....

After surviving a crash course in espionage at the mysterious Academy Absconditi, November has only one purpose: finding her missing father. Along with fellow student (and heartthrob) Ash, November follows the clues that her father left....

As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon have narrowly escaped Valley Forge - but their relief is short-lived. Before long they are reported as runaways....

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly...

When high school dropout Ashur Yonan receives an unexpected invitation to join a shadowy organization known as the Academy, he is plunged into an ancient conspiracy that threatens the entire world.

A Bingley family curse looms over Lizzie's sister and Darcy's best friend—but are the dark forces at work supernatural or human?

Fall head over broomstick in love with this swoon-worthy, witchy romantic fantasy, perfect for fans of Twin Crowns, Divine Rivals and Stephanie Garber.

Set during the Civil War, against a backdrop of grand estates, unimaginable riches, and deadly secrets, three teenagers enter a torrid love triangle that will span eternity....

*Recommended by Parents' Choice* This program features an author's note read by Dita Kraus. Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, The Librarian of Auschwitz is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust...

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence....

Princess Guinevere has come to Camelot to wed a stranger: the charismatic King Arthur. With magic clawing at the kingdom's borders, the great wizard Merlin conjured a solution - send in Guinevere to be Arthur's wife....

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, but she leads a forbidden secret life....

Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big....

Czternastoletni Staś Tarkowski i ośmioletnia Nel Rawlison mieszkają w Port Saidzie. Ich ojcowie pracują w kompanii Kanału Sueskiego...

Summer, 1944. As Allied soldiers prepare to land in France, Marc and his friends must destroy a battalion of German tanks that could halt the invasion in its tracks....

In this queer retelling of the classic novel and third book in Tirzah Price's Jane Austen Murder Mystery series, Mansfield Park is the center of a deadly accident (or is it?)....

From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores his sexuality.

One year of training in samurai school, and Jack Fletcher is in real trouble. His deadly rival - the ninja Dragon Eye - could strike at any moment....

One day, 13-year-old Jessie Bollier is earning pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans; the next, he is kidnapped and thrown aboard a slave ship....

Jack hat es geschafft: Er ist den Samurai des Shoguns entkommen und segelt auf einem Schiff Richtung Heimat. In seiner Begleitung: die tapfere Samurai-Kämpferin Akiko und der schlaue Mönch Yori. Doch als die Freunde London erreichen, werden sie alles andere als freundlich empfangen. Und nicht nur das: Ein dunkler Schatten ist ihnen aus Japan gefolgt.

Gen a d'ailleurs réussi à s'approprier le Sceau du roi directement dans les appartements de celui-ci. Malheureusement, ses fanfaronnades le conduisent en prison où il croupit va croupir jusqu'à ce que le plus puissant conseiller royal, le mage, lui propose un marché qu'il n'a pas vraiment le choix de refuser : dérober une relique inestimable pour recouvrer sa liberté. Commence alors une aventure épique dans un monde secoué par les guerres et les intrigues politiques, et dont personne ne se doute de l'issue.

Ford is a traumatized former child model. Cassie is the epitome of DIY punk with a life full of poverty and pain serving smoothies at the Orange Julius. Finally there is Jenny, a young preppy with talent and dreams held back by a society not designed for women like her. As their lives intersect in the late 1980's at the Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, Illinois, there will be love, confusion, and dangerous adversaries with wealth and power. Ford, Cassie and Jenny just have each other. Will it be enough? How do fragile hearts of glass survive in the real world?

Wabaningo by Jim Valentine is an irresistible coming-of-age story set in a 1950s Boy Scout camp in the dense forests of Western Michigan. Through the eyes of young Jimmie, this novel apprehends the coarse excitement, challenges, and changeovers that shape 'boys' into 'men.' Intrinsically, it is a trip of self-discovery. As Jimmie experiences friendships, rivalries, and personal trials, he retains lessons that extend far beyond the campgrounds—courage, commitment, and the power of diligence.

How much risk should a person take to protect someone who has been dead for centuries? Siblings Alice and Henry are about to find out when they head to the country with their parents for a summer holiday. The cottage the family rents near the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey is nothing like their house in Oxford, not least because it appears to harbour a maze of secrets. Alice, Henry, and their parents are determined to unravel the puzzles that have been placed in their path.