Young Gabriel has grown up watching his father work with thoroughbred horses as the trusted and respected trainer on a plantation in Kentucky. As the Civil...

Again set in Guatemala, this time guerrilla soldiers attack the village where Santiago and his family live. Everything is lost including his parents...only Santiago and his four-year-old sister survive....

India Moody is twelve years old when the Civil War comes to the Shenandoah Valley. She's excited by the glamour, but day-by-day and battle-by-battle, she will lose nearly everything...

After his father dies trying to cross an icy stretch of the Arctic tundra, Sig must take care of the corpse in addition to his own grief. During this...

Charlotte Parkhurst is living in an orphanage until the day her best friend is adopted, and she finds herself alone. She decides to run away and heads into town...

Civil War books for kids seem to focus primarily on the war in the East, but this tale is set in Kansas and Oklahoma and brings the Western campaign...

What are the roots of your family? This is a look back to the Civil War and the lives of the family members at that time. A steamboat pulls...

Imagine yourself as a twelve-year-old orphan in 1881, who is being put on the "Orphan Train" and sent out West to be adopted by some family along the way....

At the same moment in time when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is leading peaceful demonstrations in the United States to gain rights for America's African Americans, twelve-year old...

Sam is just a boy living on a farm in Lexington, Massachusetts. When word comes that the British have left Boston and are headed toward Lexington to get gunpowder...