Titles in Historical Fiction

Maeve Merritt knows all about magic. After all, she found Mermeros the djinni in a sardine tin! But not even magic can give her the freedom to do the daring things she wants to do in her life—things not allowed for girls in 1897. When Maeve and her friend Alice visit Cambridge University, though, she’s amazed to meet ambitious young women breaking down barriers in science, in education, and in sports. But just when it seems like her dreams might one day come true, thieves looking to steal Mermeros put Maeve and her friends in danger.

Non-stop action meets breathtaking revelations in the stunning Chris Bradford's Ninja trilogy. Follow Taka, Cho and Renzo are on missions of vengeance and adventure. Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8...

Klaus W. Hoffmann erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Ritters Falk von Greifenstein, der zum ersten Mal an einem Turnier auf der stolzen Burg Hauenstein teilnimmt. Er ist ganz neu auf dem Kampfplatz und sein Gegner, Ritter Rambert, ist stark wie ein Bär. Doch warum lässt er plötzlich sein Schwert fallen und hüpft herum? Ein spannendes und lustiges Hörspiel mit echter mittelalterlicher Musik!

During World War II, a young girl navigates leaving behind her home and beloved dog after the London Blitz. A timeless historical coming of age exploration of girlhood and grief from the award-winning author of And We Stay, perfect for fans of The Night War. The year is 1941, and as bombs fall...

A BRAND NEW, FULL COLOR MAGIC TREE HOUSE ADVENTURE in the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! Jack and Annie are just regular kids . . . who have a magic tree house that whisks them through time and all over the world. But the magic is in danger! To save it, they must gather...

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and...

Pliny is an ordinary Roman boy with a HUGE secret: he can talk to animals. When Pliny stumbles upon a dormouse trapped in a pot, he doesn't expect to come to its rescue. He definitely doesn't expect the mouse to start squeaking orders at him, to actually understand the bossy mouse at the bottom...

The Amazing Adventures of Barney The Bear follows a curious little bear who loves to travel and learn . In each story Barn Visits a different country, explores famous places and discovers fun and fascinating facts alone the way. Through his exciting adventures, young readers journey around the...

Die Geister des Louvre Ein Geist streift nachts durch den Louvre und versetzt die Wächter vor dem Zimmer des Königs in Angst. Die drei Musketiere und D'Artagnan gehen mit Unterstützung ihres Freundes Alex und seines Geisterpendels im Louvre auf Geistersuche. Richelieu wird entführt. Die Erpresser fordern hohes Lösegeld, das der König allein und ohne Bewachung überbringen soll. Der König ist alleine und langweilt sich im Louvre.

D'Artagnan findet eine Karikatur von Rochefort und klebt sie ihm auf dem Markt an den Rücken. Rochefort hält den laut lachenden Alex für den Schuldigen und lässt ihn in den Kerker werfen. Die Beleidigung eines Hauptmanns des Königs gilt als Majestätsbeleidigung und wird schwer bestraft. Die drei Musketiere müssen schnell herausfinden, wer die Karikatur Rocheforts gezeichnet hat, um Alex' Unschuld zu beweisen und ihn vor der Verurteilung zu bewahren.

Milady verbündet sich mit dem König eines winzigen Königreichs, um endlich einen Adelstitel zu erhalten. Durch den Diebstahl einer geheimen Militärkarte will dieser König Frankreich einnehmen. D'Artagnan soll einen Dieb fangen, der in Paris sein Unwesen treibt. Richelieu ist genervt von König Louis XIII. Er will einen Ersatz finden, der ihm zu Diensten ist.

“Nope, that little feller don’t look like he’ll amount to much.” That’s what almost everyone said about Little Bub. But young Joel Goss knew that Little Bub was a special colt, even though he was a runt. When schoolteacher Justin Morgan asked Joel to gentle the colt, Joel was thrilled...

In the era of Rembrandt, Rubens, and Van Dyke, Spain had its own great painter—Diego Vel├ísquez. His assistant is Juan, an African slave who helps his master in his studio by preparing paints and stretching canvasses. Soon, by spending time in the studio and watching his master's technique...

Jesse, a Hebrew slave, and Jennat, a half-Egyptian, half-Syrian servant girl, both serve the Egyptians, but they live in vastly different worlds. Though Jennat serves a wealthy mistress, Memnet, she is content to share in the glitter of Egyptian life and idol worship. But Jesse’s life is...

A robbery rocks the entire household, and everyone is a suspect. Twelve-year-old trainee housemaid Alice and reclusive young aristocrat Theo are determined to solve the case. As they investigate upstairs and downstairs to track down the culprit, the mystery deepens, and danger looms closer.

WHEN ONE OF Sally’s clients loses a large sum of money in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally sets out to investigate. But as she delves deeper into the identity of a wealthy and elusive industrialist, she uncovers a plot so diabolical, it could subvert the entire...

1945. War has ended, but for sisters Isobel and Flora, the struggles still continue. They've lost their father, had their home destroyed in a bombing raid and now they must go to live with their aunt and her awful husband, Mr Godfrey, in their ancestral home of Splint Hall. From the moment of their arrival, it seems that this is a place shrouded in mysteries and secrets. Who are the strange men who arrive with packages at night? What is the source of the strange blue sparks coming from the ground? And why do the locals seem to hate their family so much?

Kohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryū in real life. Those dragons all disappeared from Japan after World War II, and 20 years later, they've become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins, who can fit in your palm, are all that remain. And Kohei loves his ryū, Yuharu, but...Kohei has a memory of the big ryū. He knows that's impossible, but still, it's there, in his mind. In it, he can see his grandpa—Ojiisan—gazing up at the big ryū with what looks to Kohei like total and absolute wonder. 

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It is late August of ad 79. The Roman world is reeling from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Volcanic ash covers the land, sunsets are blood-red, and the sea gives up corpses of the dead. At a makeshift camp south of Stabia, hundreds of refugees from the cities around Vesuvius try to come to...