Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2005-10-15 | Author:Veda Boyd Jones [JONES, VEDA BOYD]

CHAPTER 8 Easter Traditions “Let me shake the hand that shook the hand of President Roosevelt,” Uncle Albert said to Maureen before Sunday dinner. The Stevensons had gone to the ...
( Category: 1800s October 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-15 | Author:Norma Jean Lutz [LUTZ, NORMA JEAN]

CHAPTER 10 World Series “The Babe’s the greatest!” Garvey stood with his hands on his hips and a scowl on his face. He was on the schoolgrounds, facing off with ...
( Category: 1900s October 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-15 | Author:Susan Martins Miller [MILLER, SUSAN MARTINS]

CHAPTER 10 Creak and Crash! “But, Mamá, it’s a flour sack!” Rosa protested. Mamá held the sack up against Rosa to see if it was long enough for a blouse. ...
( Category: 1800s October 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-15 | Author:Colleen L. Reece [REECE, COLLEEN L.]

John and Sarah soon made friends with the other children aboard, not only with the older children from Leiden, but also with the servants and children of the Strangers. They ...
( Category: Colonial October 4,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth McDavid Jones

CHAPTER 10 SHOWDOWN IN THE FISH SHACK Rhoda tried to slam her mind shut against the idea. How could it be true? Mr. Kimball was a member of the U.S. ...
( Category: 1800s September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-16 | Author:Shaw Kuzki [Kuzki, Shaw]

Kozo was surprised when Nozomi started crying on the way home from the sanitarium. But when he heard Mr. Yoshioka’s story from Shun, he felt like crying, too. He remembered ...
( Category: Military & Wars September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-01 | Author:Robert J. Skead

CHAPTER 14 A FATHER’S DREAD Lamberton Clark stood by his window and watched the cold rain falling in sheets outside. Muddy puddles of water filled every crater and hole on ...
( Category: Colonial September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Robert J. Skead

“What’s that?” John said softly. He sat up, struggling to focus his eyes in the darkness. The shadowed outline of a man was tightening the girths on George. But where ...
( Category: Colonial September 30,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-02 | Author:Rosanne Parry [Parry, Rosanne]

Chapter 14 Sunday, May 10, 1863 THREE THOUSAND WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN WASHINGTON —New York Times The next morning, Kathleen returns Temperance’s gift of clothes without a word. Temperance doesn’t tell ...
( Category: 1800s September 29,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-18 | Author:Edeet Ravel

6 A Change of Plan It’s my last morning in Bakchar. I’m leaving, probably forever. Yesterday I said goodbye to Igor and Dedushka. Igor slapped me on the back, wished ...
( Category: Holocaust September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Johanna Spyri

”Heidi’s lessons started to go better, but that was the only good change in the young girl. Ever since Ms. Rottenmeier had told Heidi that she was being nasty for ...
( Category: Europe September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-11 | Author:Leah Henderson [Henderson, Leah]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO SO THE STORY GOES Ailey tried to make himself as small as possible in the dining room chair. But it didn’t work. All eyes were on him. “We ...
( Category: 1900s September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-20 | Author:Milam McGraw Propst

Chapter 21 MRS. MCCALL WAS right about how much the people in town wanted to help. Our back porch and our basement were soon chucked full of furniture, clothes, kitchen ...
( Category: 1900s September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Morpurgo

CHAPTER 12 PERHAPS IT WAS the contrast with the few idyllic months we had spent with Emilie and her grandfather that made what followed so harsh and so bitter an ...
( Category: Military & Wars September 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Selma held a chip in her fingers and turned it over a few times, like she was thinking really hard. “But the writing wasn’t there after all.” “Nope,” Al said. ...
( Category: United States September 28,2022 )