Sookan, the unforgettable heroine of Year of Impossible Goodbyes, is now fifteen years old and a refugee in Pusan, a city in a southern province of Korea. The Korean...

Elijah Freeman was the first baby to be born free in the runaway slave settlement of Buxton in Ontario, Canada in 18. Now he's eleven years old, and, through...

History comes alive in the voice of Eliza, a slave in Alexandria, Virginia in 1854. Eliza's mother, Jane Mae, a master storyteller, has been sold away by Sir leaving...

It's a warm October day in Augusta, Georgia and the Civil War has been raging for two years. Tommy McKnight and his sister, Annie, watch out their window as...

Surely the potato blight won’t hurt Esty’s family, her papa being agent for the landowner, right? But the famine in 1840s Ireland cuts deep, and 12 year old Esty...

Eddie Okubo enlists in the US Army at the age of 17, just days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His Japanese-American heritage will lead him into a...

The wonderful Eyewitness readers series continues. These are great books for independent readers who prefer to learn information from their books and aren't really interested in a storyline. ...

This is a powerful story of black soldiers serving in Vietnam. What circumstances led them to choose to fight in this war? What have they left behind, and what...

When word comes that father's ship may have gone down, Aunt Alice sends eleven-year old Digory Beale off to find out if father is still alive and instructs him...

Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this is the story of Mother Rigby, one of the most powerful witches in New England. She wakes...