Reviews and Blog Posts: Historical

Ann Ahern has a crush on her French teacher. It doesn't disturb her that Mademoiselle Eugenie is a woman, but it does disturb her that she's Black. It's 1974, and Boston is still struggling with the Civil Rights movement, instituting busing between neighborhoods to desegregate the schools. Ann's Catholic Irish-American...

This journal of real-life adventurer and explorer Harmen van den Bogaert, a Dutch fur trader who journeyed into the land of the Iroquois, is excitingly illustrated to depict the danger and trials of such a daunting quest.

Nelly is a sniggler. Do you know what a sniggler is? It's a person who catches eels! In medieval times children did all sorts of jobs called very different things than they are today. Learn about tanners, villeins, and varlets. See how people lived in all different classes of medieval...

India Moody is 12 when the Civil War comes to Virginia. All of the local boys can't wait to join the rebel army and India's pa joins too. School is closed, so India goes to study with a neighbor, Emory Trimble, whose health has kept him out of the war....

Melkorka is an Irish princess around the year 900. The Norse and the Vikings keep raiding and attacking Irish kingdoms and Melkorka must flee to avoid a marriage to a savage Viking. On her way to safety, Melkorka is grabbed by slave traders and taken aboard a ship bound for...

This isn't just a collection of short stories–it's a history lesson. Before each set of stories, 2 from each decade from the 1950s to today, there are a few detailed pages on what life was life for GLBT folks during that decade, with a particular focus on what it was...

Maggie's grandfather, a famous photojournalist called Gee, has just died, leaving her a special package. Rather than opening it right away, Maggie goes through a long grieving process. When she opens the package, it sends her on the journey of a lifetime. This is a jump story, one where several...

Tom lives in a Brooklyn tenement during the Civil War. He helps his family by selling newspapers until he is offered a job working on the top secret ship, the Monitor, that the Union army hopes will help win the war. Captain Ericsson is a genius inventor who is building...

In the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Julia is a wealthy crippled girl and Sura is her beautiful slave. While they lead totally opposite lives, they are best friends. During a couple of eventful weeks, the girls' world completely changes as they are forced to grow up and see where...

Anahita and her tribe are a nomadic people of northern Iran. Anahita enjoys their traditional way of life; however, Anahita chafes at the restrictions her culture places on women. Most of all, Anahita does not want an arranged marriage to the local khan, a powerful but frightening man. Anahita proposes...