When the bones of a young girl are found on the mountain, buried under the tree where she used to play, and four years after many believed that she had run away with her lover, shock and grief soon turn to suspicion.
For fourteen-year Dee Vale, an illegitimate child living her with her stern and unemotional [...]
During Ireland’s Great Famine, in the 1840’s, the potato crops were struck with blight and turned to rotten mush in the fields. For poor tenant farmers, who for generations had planted potatoes as their only crop, the blight spelled disaster. Without food to fed their families, or a crop to sell for money to buy [...]
Fifteen-year old Ned Marriner wanders the deserted chapels and aisles of the ancient cathedral at Aix-en-Provence, passing the time while his famous photographer father sets up his photo shoot outside. Though he is glad to be out of school two months early, and enjoys watching his father and his team of assistants plan the pictures [...]
Capital of England and the 19th century world, the proud and beautiful city of London of the late 1860s is also a city full of bigotry, hatred and despair, something young Sherlock Holmes knows only too well. The product of a runaway marriage between the daughter of a well-to-do country squire and a brilliant but [...]
Tom Tin and his four teenaged companions find themselves in desperate straits; aboard a stripped down, lumbering hulk of a steamboat lost on the ocean in the southern hemisphere, half a world away from England, and rapidly running out of water, food and fuel to run the steam engine. It seems they have escaped from [...]
“They are here,” states Tuk’s grandfather, as he pauses in his work. The Inuit elder has dreamed of the arrival of a great umiak, a boat so large that it could hold many families, one that is made entirely of wood. Out in the bay, now becoming navigable with the arrival of spring, [...]
Set in 1857 near Chatham, in Canada West, Elijah of Buxton is the story of Elijah who, at almost twelve years old, is the first freeborn resident of a settlement of former slaves. Though he is diligent in his school work, reliable about finishing his chores around the farm, and always ready to help [...]
Born in 1948, Normee Ekoomiak lived in a snow house in the winter and in a tent made of animal skins during the summer months. With his family, he followed the animals, moving to the sea ice in the winter to hunt seal, to the river in the spring to fish for Arctic char, [...]
The daughter of a Yorkshire weaver, Meg Lumb has learned to wash and dye and spin wool, and help her mother with her younger brother, but from her father she has also learned to carve wood. She creeps away to the churchyard during quiet moments to play with Dilly-Lal and Drum-a-Drum, two peg dolls [...]
Twelve year-old Jim Hawkins lives with his widowed mother who struggles to run the Admiral Anson Inn, which has fallen on hard times that are made all the more difficult when the Moehners, a wealthy and influential local family, decide they want to buy up the inn and redevelop it as part of a new [...]
