Quick view Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt The Newbery Award winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War View Details
Quick view How I Found the Strong: A Civil War Story by Margaret McMullan McMullan pens a gripping story of ten-year-old Frank Russell, who comes of age too soon during the Civil War--a war that mercilessly robs Frank of a simpler way of life, his boyhood, his family, and his idealistic dreams. View Details
Quick view The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara The Battle of Gettysburg was fought for two dreams-- freedom, and a way of life. Memories, promises, and love were carried into the battle but what fell was shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty. View Details
Quick view Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen In this "searing picture of slavery" ("Kirkus Reviews"),12-year-old slave Sarny risks terrible punishment as Nightjohn, an adult slave, teaches her how to read. An inspirational story, meticulously researched, and historically accurate. View Details
Quick view The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. View Details
Quick view The Kingdom on the Waves by M T Anderson Anderson recounts Octavian's experiences as the Revolutionary War explodes around him, thrusting him into intense battles and tantalizing him with elusive visions of liberty. Escalating to a deeply satisfying climax, this celebrated novel examines the... View Details
Quick view The Help by Kathryn Stockett In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and... View Details
Quick view Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite's father,... View Details
Quick view Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe. View Details
Quick view Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett An extraordinary World War II German agent with secret information about the Allied D-Day landing waits at an English lighthouse to be picked up by a submarine and becomes sidetracked by an affair with a paraplegic's wife. View Details
Quick view Flygirl by Sherri L Smith When America enters World War II, the Army creates the Women's Air Force Service Pilots. Ida Mae Jones, a young African-American woman, suddenly sees a way to fly as well as do something to help her brother stationed in the Pacific. View Details
Quick view The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter Returned to his white family, Indian captive John Cameron Butler wants to go back to his Indian family whom he respects and loves. View Details
