In seventeenth-century England, twelve-year-old Issy is accused of being a witch and struggles with the belief that she actually does have strange powers.

The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

An orphaned Cro-Magnon child, adopted into a clan of Neanderthal hunter-gatherers, gradually becomes aware that her survival is linked to that of humankind.

This powerful story shows the journey of Amari, 15, from her Ashanti village into slavery in America, balancing the vicious (including rape) specifics with her ferocious survivor’s spirit.

Eddie Okubo, 16, a Japanese American in Hawaii, lies about his age and enlists in the U.S. Army during World War II, but the racism he encounters in the army is as terrifying as enemy fire.

As a new homesteader alone in Montana in 1918, orphan Hattie, 16, struggles to keep her land. The authentic first-person narrative shows a young woman facing terrible odds.

Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical

The saga of an Aleutian woman of some 9,000 years ago and her search for safety and security.

A young black slave witnesses unspeakable evil in pre-Revolutionary New England in an ambitious novel that raises issues about what patriotism and freedom mean.

In 1882, 16-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia.

Molly, 13, in present-day Connecticut must save Sam, 11, pressed into service onboard the HMS Victory during the eighteenth century and wounded at Trafalgar.