After being framed for cowardice in a sea battle, 13-year-old Sam and his friend Richard are sent to Australia, where they must fight for their lives in the outback.
Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction genre
I Am The Great Horse
The war horse Bucephalas recounts his adventures from 344-323 B.C. with Alexander the Great and his relationship with a groom who has prophetic dreams.
Year Of Impossible Goodbyes
In 1945, 10-year-old Sookan’s homeland of North Korea is occupied by the Japanese. Sookan watches her people–forced to renounce their native ways–become increasingly angry and humiliated. When war’s end brings only a new type of domination–from the Russian communists.
Megiddo’s Shadow
After the death of his beloved older brother hector in World War I, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves the family farm in Canada to enlist in Hector’s battalion, where he attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
Fire In The Hills
Upon returning to Italy, 14-year-old Roberto struggles to survive, first on his own, then as a member of the resistance, fighting against the Nazi occupiers while yearning to reach home safely and for an end to the war.
Kanada
During World War II, life for Jutka, a Hungarian Jew and her family are transported to Auschwitz, where her mother and grandmother perish. Dreams of Canada, inspired by a book from a Canadian relative, sustain her. After the liberation, Jutka falls in love with Sandor, who dreams of relocating to Israel.
Shanghai Shadows
From 1939 to 1945, a Jewish family struggles to survive in occupied China, young ilse by remaining optimistic, her older brother by joining a resistance movement, her mother by maintaining connections to the past, and her father by playing the violin that had been his livelihood.
The Blood Confession
Cursed at birth, the beautiful and ruthless young Erzebet Bathory becomes obsessed with achieving eternal youth and begins to bathe in the blood of virgin girls to preserve her beauty. Based on the life of the “Blood Countess,” who lived in Hungary in the 1500s.
Landed
After leaving his home in southeastern China, twelve-year-old Sun is held and interrogated on Angel Island before being allowed to join his merchant father in San Francisco.
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Escape From Botany Bay: The True Story Of Mary Bryant
In 1791, after being transported to Australia in the first shipment of convicts, Mary Bryant, her husband, two children, and seven other convicts, unable to endure the terrible conditions of the penal colony, organize a daring escape in an open boat.