In this moving and timeless story, award-winning author L. M. Elliott captures life on the U.S. homefront during World War...

The message of tolerance (and intolerance) resonates throughout this novel of an extended family living on the fringes of society.

First published during the centennial of the Civil War in 1964 and a Newbery Award winner

Returns us not to a simpler time, but to a time when simpler means for growth and healing remained accessible.

Can two cousins on opposite sides of the Cold War and a divided city come together when so much stands...

At a time when so much young adult historical fiction obsesses with contemporary political preoccupations and other grim subjects, it...

Immigration is a quintessentially American story; and it’s a personal one for Mary Helen Fein. Her grandmother, Helen Breakstone Fein,...

In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares on national television “segregation now, segregation tomorrow,...

This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails...

D-Day, June 6, 1944: the most expansive military endeavor in history. No less than world cooperation would bring down Hitler...

It’s the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders have lived five blocks apart all their lives....

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, the United States was propelled into World War II....