Sometimes it seems as though life has taken away everything you've got and left you with nothing but pain and questions. Set in 1937 with the boxing matches of...

Maria Peters is looking forward to her thirteenth birthday since she believes it will give her the rights and responsibilities of an adult. She is also interested in...

It's 1940 in Paris and Gustave, age 11, is competing to win the prize in the scavenger hunt against the other teams in his Scout troop. It's boyish vying...

What would life have been like for an eleven-year-old boy who finds himself sent off to the colonies as a page to Captain John Smith. Young Samuel Collier has...

It's 1935 and drama and adventure await thirteen-year old Jake as he begins his summer vacation fishing and making friends with Sharkey,...

If you ask folks from Hickory, North Carolina, what they remember about the year 1944, they might tell you about their fathers’ fighting Hitler, about the hardships of war,...

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Bound to her late father's second wife and daughter. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where a woman...

It's 1912, and Mamma is on strike against the big mill owner in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The crowds march and Mamma carries a sign that says, "WE WANT BREAD AND...

Tomorrow! Finally, Sasha will become a Young Pioneer and help Comrade Stalin bring the prosperity of communism to the USSR. His father, an officer in the Soviet State Police,...