Becca always loved her grandmother’s story about Briar Rose, no matter how many times Gemma told it to her and her sisters. The princess, the black-booted witch’s curse, the...

Imagine reading a book in which the names from the Bible emerge as a characters set in a plot of historical fiction, and you will have a sense of...

Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell is on the road and setting forth on his own plan for a change. He has summoned his courage and is going to find the man...

When fifteen year old Bill Cody sees the sign that the Pony Express is hiring, he tries to talk his way into the job. He can ride. ...

Aha! This is a good one. Take yourself back to the days of the California Gold Rush. It's 1849 and down in the belly of the good ship Lady...

Hershel has been blind since he was a small child. However, his lack of eyesight does not stop him from attending school, playing by the riverbank (where he...

“Is the lucky one the one who dies or the one who’s left behind?” wonders Carolina at the funeral. At 11 years old, she’s the one left behind after...

Seeing Indians in Queen Elizabeth’s court, young Lady Catherine Archer is enthralled by Sir Walter Raleigh’s reports of his New World colony and by Sir Walter himself. But when...

One of the best ways I ever found of learning history was to read historical fiction and understand the times through the eyes of a sympathetic character. Here is...

We’ve all had the units in school where they talk about the economic, social and political impact of slavery in the history of the U.S. This story is...