Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long search for her mother and luckily finds a haven at the famous Fraunces Tavern. But even with the help of Sam Fraunces and her fellow worker, Horace,...

It is before daybreak on April 18, 1906. Jacob Kaufman slips out of the wooden boarding house where he lives with his immigrant father and little sister Rosie, his father's harsh words still...

Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt. Meanwhile, the great Chicago...

When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling...

This is a vital and dramatic novel of a year in the life of a young Ojibwa girl in the mid-1800s.

Inspired by a true story, the riveting novel of a young slave girl's harrowing escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. The moment Ann Maria Weems was born, her freedom was stolen from her....

Daniel barely remembers leading a normal life before the Nazis came to power in 1933. He can still picture once being happy and safe, but memories of those days are fading as he and his family...

A vivid portrayal of the Civil War. Johnny, 14, convinces his mother to let him join a wagon train carrying food to Confederate soldiers. He has been brought up to believe that all blacks are...

A young Indian boy from Nipigon country in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place....

The pirates of legend sailed the seven seas, exercised a salty vocabulary, and pursued lives full of swordplay and adventure. But what was life like for the real pirates of history? What odd...

Pocahontas was the favored daughter of the great Chief Powhatan when the first British settlers, led by Captain John Smith, arrived on Virginia’s shores. Not soon after, she became an important...

World War II is raging. Yuki and her Japanese-American family are forced from their home in California and imprisoned in a U.S. concentration camp called Topaz. After months of unbearable life in...