Crossing the Panther's Path by Elizabeth Alder  230 pages 

• Sixteen-year-old Billy Caldwell, son of a British soldier and a Mohawk woman, leaves school to join Tecumseh in his efforts to prevent the Americans from taking any more land from the Indians in the Northwest Territory. 1780-841 time period.  Check our catalog

The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder 259 pages

• After he is orphaned and has his tongue cut out in a clash with the bullying sons of a Welsh noble, Evyn is sold as a slave and serves many masters, from the gracious Lady Swan Neck to the valiant Harold Godwinson, England's last Saxon king.  1022-1066 time period.  Check our catalog

Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson  251 pages

• In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.  Check our catalog

Crispin : at the Edge of the World by Avi 234 pages

• Sequel to: Crispin, the Cross of Lead.
• Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.  Check our catalog

Crispin : the Cross of Lead by Avi  262 pages

• Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. Check our catalog

The Man Who Was Poe : a Novel by Avi  208 pages

• In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.  Check our catalog

Ernestine & Amanda, Mysteries on Monroe Street by Sandra Belton 153 pages

• Ernestine & Amanda series
• Ernestine and Amanda, two African-American twelve-year-olds growing up under segregation in the 1950s, are brought together when the all black dance studio where they take lessons is attacked by vandals.  Takes place in the United States.  Check our catalog

Shakespeare's Scribe by Gary Blackwood  265 pages

• Sequel to: The Shakespeare Stealer.
• In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.  Check our catalog

Shakespeare's Spy by Gary Blackwood 281 pages

• Sequel to: Shakespeare's Scribe.
• The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquires a new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.  Check our catalog

The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood 216 pages

• A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty. 1500-1600 time period in England.  Check our catalog

The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood 261 pages

• In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.  Check our catalog

Kitty and Mr. Kipling : Neighbors in Vermont by Lenore Blegvad  131 pages

• In 1892, eight-year-old Kitty learns about writing and the world beyond her Dummerston, Vermont, home when she befriends her new neighbors, author Rudyard Kipling and his family, who have recently arrived from England.  Check our catalog

Reluctant Hero : a Snowy Road to Salem in 1802 by Philip Brady 159 pages

• In 1802, a thirteen-year-old farm boy, Cutting Favour, journeys to Salem, Massachusetts, to sell shingles and furs to provide food for his family and encounters many dangers along the way.  Check our catalog

Spying on Miss Muller by Eve Bunting  179 pages

• At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem. 1939-1945 time period.  Check our catalog

Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell 243 pages

• In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to educate Native Americans, as they try to assimilate into white culture and one of them is falsely accused of stealing. Takes place in New York state.  Check our catalog

The Playmaker by J.B. Cheaney 307 pages

• While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthow Queen Elizabeth.  Check our catalog

Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi 171 pages

• A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.  Check our catalog

Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman 167 pages

• Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.  Middle Ages time period.  Check our catalog

My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier 216 pages

• Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. 1775-1783 time period in America.  Check our catalog

The Empty Mirror by James Lincoln Collier 192 pages

• Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.  Check our catalog

The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline B. Cooney 249 pages

• In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.  Check our catalog

Born in the Year of Courage by Emily Crofford  160 pages

• In 1841, having been shipwrecked and picked up by an American whaling ship outside Japanese territorial waters, fifteen-year-old Manjiro decides to go live in America and work towards opening trade between his country and the West.  Check our catalog

At the Crossing-places by Kevin Crossley-Holland 394 pages

• "Arthur trilogy book two."
• Sequel to: The Seeing Stone.
• In late twelfth-century England, the thirteen-year-old Arthur goes to begin his new life as squire to Lord Stephen at Holt, where crusaders ready themselves.  Check our catalog

The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland  342 pages

• Arthur trilogy ; bk. 1.
• In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own. Check our catalog

The Black Canary by Jane Louise Curry  279 pages

• As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.  Check our catalog

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis  245 pages

• Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.  1929 time period.  Check our catalog

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis 210 pages

• The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.  Check our catalog

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman 195 pages

• In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.  Check our catalog

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman 169 pages

• The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.  Middle Ages time period.  Check our catalog

Rodzina by Karen Cushman  215 pages

• A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery. 19^th Century time period.  Check our catalog

Little Sister by Kara Dalkey  200 pages

• Thirteen-year-old Fujiwara no Mitsuko, daughter of a noble family in the imperial court of twelfth century Japan, enlists the help of a shape-shifter and other figures from Japanese mythology in her efforts to save her older sister's life.  Check our catalog

Betsy Zane: the Rose of Fort Henry by Lynda Durrant 198 pages

• In 1781 twelve-year-old Elizabeth Zane, great-great-aunt of novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphia to return to her brothers' homestead near Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia, where she plays an important role in the final battle of the American Revolution.  Check our catalog

The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich  244 pages

• Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.  Check our catalog

The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald  175 pages

• The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money. Late 1800’s-early 1900’s time period.  Check our catalog

By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman 193 pages

• Aunt Arabella's butler, Praiseworthy, and her nephew stowaway on a ship to win a fortune for her in California during the Gold Rush of 1849.  Check our catalog

Walk Across the Sea by Susan Fletcher  214 pages

• In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.  Check our catalog

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes  293 pages

• After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. 1774-1775 time period.  Check our catalog

Wheel of the Moon by Sandra Forrester  165 pages

• In England in 1627, newly-orphaned Pen Downing leaves her country village for London where she is abducted and sent to Virginia to work as an indentured servant.  Check our catalog

Black Jack by Leon Garfield  197 pages

• A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.  Check our catalog

Smith by Leon Garfield  195 pages

• Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.  Check our catalog

Maggie's Door by Patricia Reilly Giff  158 pages

• In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.  Check our catalog

The Winter Hare by Joan Elizabeth Goodman 255 pages

• In 1140, with England divided between the supporters of King Stephen and those of the Empress Matilda, twelve-year-old Will Belet, small for his age but longing to be a knight, comes to his Uncle's castle to be a page and soon finds himself involved in dangerous intrigues and adventures.  Check our catalog

Out of the Dust by by Karen Hesse  227 pages

• In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. 1929-1940 time period.  Check our catalog

Dancing at the Odinochka by Kirkpatrick Hill  257 pages

• In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans. Inspired by the 5-page memoir written by the real Erinia Pavaloff in 1936.  Check our catalog

Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm  261 pages

• As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.  Check our catalog

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler  214 pages

• While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.  Check our catalog

The Demon in the Teahouse by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler  181 pages

• Sequel to: The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn.
• In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.  Check our catalog

At the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper 169 pages

• Sequel: Petals in the Ashes.
• In June 1665, excited at the prospect of coming to London to work at her sister Sarah's candy shop, teenaged Hannah is unconcerned about rumors of Plague until, as the hot summer advances and increasing numbers of people succumb to the disease, she and Sarah find themselves trapped in the city with no means of escape.  Check our catalog

Petals in the Ashes by Mary Hooper 187 pages

• Sequel to: At the Sign of the Sugared Plum.
• Hannah and Sarah escape London, leaving behind plague and death as well as their sweets shop, and when it is safe, Hannah and her younger sister Anne return, only to face the city's Great Fire of 1666.  Check our catalog

The Big Burn by Jeanette Ingold 295 pages

• Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires. Takes place in Idaho.  Check our catalog

James Printer: a Novel of Rebellion by Paul Samuel Jacobs  220 pages

• Although he has lived and worked as a printer's apprentice with the Green family in Cambridge Massachusetts, for many years, James, a Nipmuck Indian, finds himself caught up in the events that lead to a horrible war.  1675-1676 time period.  Check our catalog

The Hunting of the Last Dragon by Sherryl Jordan 186 pages

• In England in 1356, as a monk records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric's Cove and the lair of a dragon.  Check our catalog

Worlds Apart by Kathleen Karr 196 pages

• In 1670, soon after arriving in the Carolinas with a group of colonists from England, fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Sewee Indian, Asha-po, and learns some hard lessons about survival, slavery, and friendship.  Check our catalog

Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata  260 pages

• After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop. 1942-1945 time period.  Check our catalog

Moon of Two Dark Horses by Sally M. Keehn  218 pages

• At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, hoping to keep bloodshed away from their valley, a twelve-year-old Delaware Indian boy and his white friend search sacred land for the bones of a legendary beast. 1775-1783 time period in America.  Check our catalog

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr  191 pages

• Recounts the adventures of a nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's as they travel from Germany to England. Check our catalog

Where the Great Hawk Flies by Liza Ketchum  264 pages

• Years after a violent New England raid by the Redcoats and their Revolutionary War Indian allies, two families, one that suffered during that raid and one with an Indian mother and Patriot father, become neighbors and must deal with past trauma and prejudices before they can help each other in the present. Based on the author's family history. Includes historical notes and notes on the Pequot Indians. 18th century time period.  Check our catalog

Trouble's Daughter: the Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive by Katherine Kirkpatrick 247 pages

• When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape. New York State is location.  Check our catalog

The Convicts by Iain Lawrence  198 pages

• Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy ; bk. 1
• His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.  Check our catalog

Pharaoh's Daughter: a Novel of Ancient Egypt by Julius Lester  182 pages

• A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.  1200 BC is the time period.  Check our catalog

Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace  268 pages

• The adventures of Betsy and Tacy in their first year of high school in 1906 Minnesota.  Check our catalog

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 137 pages

• In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.  Check our catalog

A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin 189 pages

• The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. Takes place in America in the 1950’s.  Check our catalog

Flight of the Fisherbird by Nora Martin 150 pages

• In 1889 in the islands off the coast of Washington State, thirteen-year-old Clementine pulls a nearly drowned Chinese man out of the sea and begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may have been involved in his attempted murder as well as other treacherous deeds.  Check our catalog

The Whispering Road by Livi Michael 328 pages

• In Victorian England, poverty-stricken, orphaned siblings Joe and Annie escape from the abusive farmer they work for and try to survive in Manchester, with help from a friendly tramp, a mysterious dog-woman, and a renegade printer who supports the rights of the poor. 19th Century is the time period.  Check our catalog

The Amethyst Ring by Scott O'Dell 212 pages

• Spanish seminarian JuliᮠEscobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcᮠand worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cort鳠and Pizarro. Before 1600 in Mesoamerica.  Check our catalog

The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O'Dell  222 pages

• Amid political turmoil and threats of plague, young Tom Barton accepts the risks of helping William Tyndale publish and smuggle into England the Bible he has translated into English. 1517-1648 is the time period.  Check our catalog

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 184 pages

• An Indian girl lives alone for 18 years on an island off the California coast after her tribe emigrates and leaves her behind.  Check our catalog

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park  152 pages

• Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. 935-1392 is the time period.  Check our catalog

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park  199 pages

• With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely. 1939-1945 is the time period.  Check our catalog

A Long Way From Chicago: a Novel in Stories by Richard Peck 148 pages

• A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.  1929-1940 is the time period.  Check our catalog

Death and the Arrow by Chris Priestley 161 pages

• After his friend Will, a pickpocket in London in 1715, is murdered as part of a series of mysterious deaths, fifteen-year-old Tom Marlowe asks his friend Dr. Harker to help find the killer.  Check our catalog

A Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman

• Sequel to: Ruby in the smoke.
• In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation called North Star.  Check our catalog

The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman  230 pages

• In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby. Check our catalog

The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman

• In London in 1881, twenty-four-year-old Sally finds her young daughter and her possessions assailed by an unknown enemy, while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his plot to defraud and exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants pouring into the country.  Check our catalog

Witch Child by Celia Rees  261 pages

• In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.  Check our catalog

Nine Days a Queen: the Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey by Ann Rinaldi 184 pages

• Lady Jane Grey, who at sixteen was Queen of England for nine days before being executed, recounts her life story from the age of nine. I had freckles. I had sandy hair. I was too short. Would my feet even touch the ground if I sat on the throne? These are the words of lady Jane Grey, as imagined by celebrated author Ann Rinaldi. 1537-1553 is the time period.  Check our catalog

Smoke on the Water: a Novel of Jamestown and the Powhatans by John Ruemmler 175 pages

• Near Jamestown in 1622, a young English boy and the son of a Powhatan Indian chief find themselves caught up in the growing animosity between their peoples. Check our catalog

Lost in America by Marilyn Sachs 150 pages

• Follows the experiences of Nicole, a teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, as she loses her parents and sister to the concentration camps and then leaves her native France to make a new life for herself in New York City.  Check our catalog

House of the Red Fish by Graham Salisbury 291 pages

• Sequel to: Under the Blood-red Sun.
• Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat. 1942 is the time period.  Check our catalog

Under the Blood-red Sun by Graham Salisbury  246 pages

• Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.  Check our catalog

Battle Cry by Jan Neubert Schultz  240 pages

• In 1862, two best friends, one white and one half Dakota Indian, find themselves involved in a bloody war when when the Dakotas, fed up with being mistreated by the federal government and local citizens, erupt with violence. Takes place in the Dakota’s and Minnesota.  Check our catalog

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare 249 pages

• Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she left behind. The only palce where Kit feels completely free is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. When Kit's friendship with the "witch" is discovered, she is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger, and then is accused of witchcraft.  1687 is the time frame.  Check our catalog

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor  276 pages

• A black family living in the South during the 1930's is faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.  Check our catalog

The Edge on the Sword by Rebecca Tingle  277 pages

• In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.  Check our catalog

Far Traveler by Rebecca Tingle  228 pages

• Sequel to: The Edge on the Sword.
• After the death of her mother, Aethelflaed of Mercia, seventeen-year-old Aelfwyn flees imprisonment by her uncle King Edward and, in the guise of a youthful bard, plays her part in the resolution of the tangled political enmities of tenth century Britain.  Check our catalog

The Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson  170 pages

• In England during the reign of King Richard I, fifteen-year-old Marian escapes from an arranged marriage to live with a community of forest folk that includes a daring young outlaw named Robert. 1189-1199 is the time period.  Check our catalog

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevi

• This is the story of Juan who was born a slave but lives to become an accomplished artist. 1606-1670 time period in Spain.  Check our catalog

Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan  194 pages

• Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.  Check our catalog

Return to the Island by Gloria Whelan 185 pages

• In 1818 Mary O'Shea must decide whether to remain on Michilmackinac Island and marry her dear Indian friend White Hawk or to accept the proposal of James, an English nobleman, and to go with him to London.  Check our catalog

The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From the Tower of London by Elvira Woodruff  225 pages

• The eleven-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there. 18th Century time period  Check our catalog

Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep  273 pages

• When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to Mountain light.  Check our catalog

Dragonwings by Laurence Yep  248 pages

• In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.  Check our catalog

The Earth Dragon Awakes : the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 by Laurence Yep 117 pages

• Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.  Check our catalog

The Traitor: Golden Mountain Chronicles, 1885 by Laurence Yep  310 pages

• In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.  Check our catalog

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen 170 pages

• Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. 1939-1945 time period.  Check our catalog

Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris 234 pages

• As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display.  Check our catalog

Sword of the Rightful King: a Novel of King Arthur by Jane Yolen 349 pages

• Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of England--pulling a sword from a stone--but trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first. In England before 1066.  Check our catalog

Outside In by Karen Romano Young 201 pages

• In 1968, as the Vietnam War continues and violence erupts throughout America, twelve-year-old Cherie tries to understand the changing nature of her relationship with the two teenage brothers across the street, as well as other aspects of her unpredictable world.  Check our catalog

Some of the Series Historical Fiction (other titles also available)

The Journal of Finn Reardon: a Newsie by Susan Campbell Bartoletti 156 pages

• My name is America series
• Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899.  Check our catalog

Land of the Buffalo Bones: the Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota by Marion Dane Bauer 221 pages

• Dear America series
• Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.  Check our catalog

Anacaona, Golden Flower by Edwidge Danticat  186 pages

• Royal diaries series
• Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.  Check our catalog

Isabel: Taking Wing by Annie Dalton  178 pages

• Girls of many lands series
• "American Girl."
• In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her. Takes place in England.  Check our catalog

I Walk in Dread : the Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials by Lisa Rowe Fraustino  203 pages

• Dear America series
• Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.  Check our catalog

Eleanor : Crown Jewel of Aquitaine by Kristiana Gregory 187 pages

• Royal diaries series
• The diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes queen of France. Check our catalog

Danger at the Wild West Show by Alison Hart 163 pages

• History mysteries series
• "American girl."
• Twelve-year-old Rose sets out to prove her brother's innocence when he is accused of shooting a politician during a Wild West show performance in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1886.  Check our catalog

Hear My Sorrow: the Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker by Deborah Hopkinson 188 pages

• Dear America series
• Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909. Takes place in New York City.  Check our catalog

Lady of Palenque: Flower of Bacal by Anna Kirwan  204 pages

• Royal diaries series
• Dear America book
• In 749, the Maya princess Green Jay, of the Kingdom of Bacal, writes in her diary about her arduous journey to Xukpip to meet King Fire Keeper, her future husband. Takes place in Mesoamerica.  Check our catalog

Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor by Kathryn Lasky  237 pages

• The royal diaries series
• In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.  1544 time period in England.  Check our catalog

When Christmas Comes Again: the World War I Diary of Simone Spencer by Beth Seidel Levine 172 pages

• Dear America series
• Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.  Check our catalog

Look to the Hills: the Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl by Patricia C. McKissack  188 pages

• Dear America series
• Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.  Check our catalog

My Face to the Wind: the Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher by Jim Murphy  182 pages

• Dear America series
• Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.  Check our catalog

Weetamoo, Heart of the Pocassets by Patricia Clark Smith  203 pages

• Royal diaries series
• The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.  Check our catalog

Love Thy Neighbor: the Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson by Ann Turner  188 pages

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• In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.  Check our catalog

Lady of Chiao Kuo: Warrior of the South by Laurence Yep  300 pages

• Royal diaries series
• In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.  Check our catalog