Age: Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction genre

Keeping Corner

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Pretty as a peacock, twelve-year-old Leela had been spoiled all her life. She doesn’t care for school and barely marks the growing unrest between the British colonists and her own countrymen. Why should she? Her future has been planned since her engagement at two and marriage at nine. Leela’s whole life changes, though, when her husband [...]

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Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Melkorka is a princess, the first daughter of a magnificent kingdom in mediæval Ireland, but all of this is lost the day she is kidnapped and taken aboard a marauding slave ship. Thrown into a world that she has never known, alongside people that her former country’s laws regarded as less than human, Melkorka is [...]

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The Winter War

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When the Soviet Union invades its tiny neighbor Finland in November 1939, Marko volunteers to help the war effort. Even though his leg was weakened by polio, he can ski well, and he becomes a messenger on the front line, skiing in white camouflage through the forests at night. The dark forest is terrifying, and [...]

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Shadows in the Twilight

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Joel will soon be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he deserved what might have [...]

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The Castaways

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Tom Tin and his four convict companions are only too glad when they come upon a deserted ship. The boys clamber aboard, not knowing whether they’ve been saved or set on a course toward doom. But after rescuing two men stranded on a melting iceberg, Tom begins to suspect that these unsavory sailors are dangerous [...]

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Honey Cake

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

For David Nathan, Copenhagen is the most beautiful city in the world. Even Nazis in the street can’t make Copenhagen ugly. But life has changed since the soldiers arrived. His parents are always worried. And his older sister goes to school early and comes home late. Sometimes she doesn’t come home at all! David’s father [...]

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Wendy

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In early twentieth-century London, before Wendy encounters Peter Pan, she is not the perfect girl her parents would like her to be. Intrepid, outspoken, and willful, she’s always getting into trouble. One evening, confined to the nursery by her horrible nanny, she sneaks out to spy on one of her parents’ glamorous parties. She sees her [...]

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Plantation Child and Other Stories

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

These vividly told tales of plantation life from decades past center around the lives of Marita Kim and her four younger brothers and sisters. The children experience many hardships growing up poor and motherless in a Korean camp in Hawaii, but their stories are full of fun and adventure. In “Joe and the White Dog,” [...]

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Frontier Wolf

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

As punishment for his poor judgment, a young, inexperienced Roman army officer is sent to Northern England to assume the command of a motley group known as the Frontier Wolves.

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Fearless

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When a storm brings down his father’s boat, Digory Beale is forced to leave home to discover his fate. For if Digory has been orphaned, he can never go home again. On his journey, Digory becomes the apprentice to a charming stranger whose life’s obsession is to save sailors’ lives. Digory must face his fears [...]

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