It's 1377 in a bleak town in England, and young Crispin's mother has just died, leaving him alone in the world with nothing but a hovel and a friendship...

It's 1812 out in the pioneer territory of Ohio, and you can almost smell the Native American who is chained upstairs in the loft, accused of murder. The two...

It is March, 1775, in Boston. Twelve year-old Daniel Prescott's family owns a tavern that is being used to house British officers. Despite rising tensions between the colonists and...

Two brothers live in the mountains of Tennessee where winters are long. During the winter, everyone in their family makes something to take to the spring fair. Jeffrey has...

It's 1926 in South Carolina, and nine-year old Darby Carmichael lives happily out in the country, spending time with her friend Evette. They are careful how they spend time...

Everybody knows the ancient Greek myth of the Minotaur…or do they? In Dark of the Moon, Tracy Barrett flips the story on its head and lends the tale a...

In 1849 Massachusetts, twelve-year-old Addie loses her father to Gold Rush fever, and her mother and younger brother a short time later to illness. Living at the edge...

In 1859 in Savannah, Georgia, the largest slave auction in American history took place. This is the story of fictionalized characters who could have been at the auction...

In her 1906 journal, Prudence worries and dreams and sketches, wondering why doctors couldn’t save her brother’s life, why her father hasn’t returned from the Spanish-American War, how she...

Before reading this YA book, the only historical novel I could recall that was about the Confederacy's notorious prisoner of war camp, Andersonville, was MacKinlay Kantor's 1955 Pulitzer Prize...