Juvenile & Young Adult / Historical

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Mr. Tucket Saga #5

by Gary Paulsen

Francis Tucket, Lottie and Billy have survived extraordinary, hair-raising adventures in their quest to find Francis's family, lost when he was kidnapped from a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. Now they meet...

The Ransom of Mercy Carter

by Caroline B. Cooney

Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of...

Ingenue

by Jillian Larkin

If you love The Great Gatsby, you'll want to read the Flappers series.

Power . . . love . . . scandal . . . there’s never enough to go around.

In the city that never sleeps, Lorraine Dyer is wide awake....

Forge

Seeds of America #2

by Laurie Halse Anderson

In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon...

Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children

by Kimberly Bradley

 This story of Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, tells a darker piece of America's history from an often unseen perspective-that of three of Jefferson's slaves-including two of...

R My Name Is Rachel

by Patricia Reilly Giff

Rachel, Cassie, and Joey live in the city with their Pop, until Pop's search for work lands the family on a run down farm. Dreamy Rachel loves to read, and doesn't know much about the country. Times are hard...

A Yellow Watermelon

by Ted M. Dunagan

In the best Southern literary tradition, A Yellow Watermelon explores poverty and racial segregation through the eyes of an innocent boy. In rural south Alabama in 1948, whites picked on one side of the cotton...

Saint Louis Armstrong Beach

by Brenda Woods

A boy, a dog, and New Orleans' most famous hurricane

Saint is a boy with confidence as big as his name is long. A budding musician, he earns money playing clarinet for the New Orleans tourists, and his best...

The Lacey Chronicles #1: The Other Countess

by Eve Edwards

Eye of the Sun

by Dianne Hofmeyr

In this exciting sequel to Eye of the Moon, Tuthmosis's brother, Amenhotep, struggles with the priests and his power-hungry young wife, Nefertiti. Ta Miu, who helped Tuthmosis and Isikara escape in Eye of the...

Dystopia

by Nealay Vasavda

What happens when the first people to feel hate start a genocide against the rest of the world?

Chaos. Slaughter. Destruction.

My name is James Brady, and this is my story.

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

by E.L. Konigsburg

Eleanor of Acquitaine has been waiting in Heaven for a long time to be reunited with her second husband, Henry II of England. Finally, the day has come when Henry will be judged for admission--and while Eleanor...

Moonshadow: Rise of the Ninja

Moonshadow #1

by Simon Higgins

In the moonlight, the explosive fast draw became a horizontal streak of silver, flashing momentarily from the cover of the shadow. The tip of Moonshadow's sword ambushed the lurking foe, who stood, still drawing...

Primavera

by Mary Jane Beaufrand

The Italian Renaissance was a cultural explosion of art, architecture and learning, but it had a darker side. Two powerful families, the tyrannical Medici and their biggest rivals, the Pazzi, are tangled in...

The Printer's Devil

by Paul Bajoria

The notorious inhabitants of London's criminal underworld are all in a day's work for Mog, the printer's apprentice, who prints their "wanted" posters. A real-life meeting with a convict entangles Mog in a secret...

Celeste's Harlem Renaissance

by Eleanora Tate

When Celeste Lassiter Massey is forced to live with her actress Aunt Valentina in Harlem, she is not thrilled to trade her friends and comfortable North Carolina for scary, big-city life. While Celeste experiences...

100 Days and 99 Nights

by Alan Madison

Dad says because of the army he stood shoulder to shoulder with polar bears and watched the sun rise over the frozen fields of Alaska, which sounds really exciting. And because of the Army he slept in sludge,...

The Second Mrs. Giaconda

by E.L. Konigsburg

Why did Leonardo da Vinci lavish three years on painting the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand? In E. L. Konigsburg's intriguing novel,...

The Lost Crown

by Sarah Miller

Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia.  Like the fingers on a hand--first headstrong Olga; thenTatiana, the tallest; Maria the most hopeful for a ring; and Anastasia, the smallest. These are the daughters of...

Hooper Finds a Family

by Jane Paley

He's endearing.

He's funny.

He's a survivor.

Here comes Hooper, one plucky, spunky dog whose warm spirit and goofy personality are irresistible. Hooper tells his own dramatic rescue tale after being left homeless...