Historical

Vietnam-born author Thanhha Lai bursts onto the literary scene with Inside Out & Back Aga...

This short story pulled from Seven American Stories, and originally published in Harper&r...

In the novel The Cay, a young white boy and an old black man are stranded on a small sand...

The amazing story of Australia's first surgeon and the boy he adopted. It's 1789, and as ...

Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford,...

In this classic short story, Newbery Medalwinning author Walter D. Edmonds tells the stor...

One of Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman's most beloved books, this rip-snortin' saga of a ...

Based on historical fact, this audiobook is full of intrigue and chivalry, and at a time ...

Myers is at his clever best in this witty and action-packed, coming-of-age story of a tee...

"Forceful and iconic," raved Publishers Weekly in a starred review. This gorgeous picture...

"Think of it as a game, Jack...Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis."Caugh...

The National Book Award-winning novel about one remarkable young woman who dares to defy ...

"Mudlarks" offers an intriguing and accurate insight into how the Mudlark people lived in...

A boy finds his great grandfather's accordion in the attic and with it the sweet history ...

When Zebulon's family is stuck without a horse and offered help only from a crooked swind...

The story about Mrs. O'Leary's cow causing the Chicago Great Fire in 1871 is questioned.

Presidents that were avidly involved in sports and recreation both before, during, and af...

This young Hungarian girl has a talent that helps a famous composer create beautiful musi...

Slaves, including Harriet Tubman, followed the North Star to freedom.

Pedro and Marta get to meet Cesar Chavez, a man who is fighting to make farm workers' liv...

Highlights presents Arbor Day written by Ellen Garin. J. Sterling Morton celebrated the f...

From the 1880's to the present, how the pledge came about and how and why it has changed ...

From the author of The Kite Rider comes another great historical novel, this time set in ...

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl, living in a peculiar family. She is the sort of ...

How does an ordinary, young girl become transported back in time taking her miserable, te...

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made is a children's book that teaches children to be open-mind...