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All my life I have done what myfamily wanted. I have performedand made them happy. Until now. Now I have broken out on my ownSarah Tracy has spent her entire life under constant supervision, always under the thumb of one older sibling or another. Now, at eighteen it's time for her to get married, so she is sent to dinner parties, plays, teas, soirees, talks, and chaperoned walks -- always accompanied, always watched.Sarah's tired of it -- tire...

Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day, when the Union army takes their meals at eight in the morning, noon, and eight at night. Although many of the townspeople suffer from a lack of food, the Corbetts receive extra rations from Claire Louise's brother, Landon, a doctor with the Union army. ...

I had freckles. I had sandy hair. I was too short. Would my feet even touch the ground if I sat on the throne? These are the words of lady Jane Grey, as imagined by celebrated author Ann Rinaldi. Jane would become Queen of England for only nine days before being beheaded at the age of sixteen. Here is a breathtaking story of English royalty with its pageantry, privilege, and surprising cruelty. As she did in her previous novel Mutiny's Daughte...

Cornelia Greene is fed up with gossip about her mother. Caty Littlefield Greene was once a beautiful young bride who lifted the troops' spirits at Valley Forge, but Cornelia knows that rumors of Caty's past indiscretions hurt Nathanael Greene, Cornelia's adored father. Yet Caty claims that she's just a flirt, and that flirting is a female necessity--a woman's only means of power. Cornelia's concern with her mother's reputation abruptly fades ...

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The Civil War is coming to an end, but for 13-year-old Kentucky plantation house slave Eulinda, it is a very difficult time. With detailed and historical accuracy, Rinaldi weaves a tale of a girl caught between two worlds.

A ten-year-old girl growing up during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always easy.Includes a reader's guide.

A fictionalized biography of the 18th-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.

Sent to live with her uncle after her own mother's death, Emily realizes that the mother of her friend is one of John Wilkes Booth's accomplices in the assassination of President Lincoln.

Claire Louise Corbett and her Confederate family flee their home as Union soldiers shell their town of Vicksburg, Mississippi. They venture out from the safety of a cave only three times a day, when the Union army takes their meals at eight in the morning, noon, and eight at night. Although many of the townspeople suffer from a lack of food, the Corbetts receive extra rations from Claire Louise's brother, Landon, a doctor with the Union army. ...

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone lived in a house made of a strong Tabby foundation with a double piazza held up by great pillars and a front yard that sloped down to the water? If everyone cold hear the wind in the palmetto trees and taste the sand in their mouths when the wind blew? And what about the tides that flow toward land twice each day, then back out again?" It's 1900--the dawn of a new century--and never in her wildest dreams di...

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An award-winning author presents a fictional account of one of the most famous family feuds in history: feud between the Hatfields and McCoys.

The Civil War turns Juliet Bradshaw's world upside-down when she and the wives and sisters of William Quantrill's renegade soldiers are arrested by the Yankees and imprisoned in Kansas City. Now Juliet must determine how far she will go to protect those she holds dear.

How could the state of Texas keep the news of the Emancipation Proclamation from reaching slaves? In this riveting historical drama, Rinaldi sheds light on the events that led to the creation of Juneteenth, a celebration of freedom that continues today.

Eleven-year-old Harriet Whitehead, who serves as the "letter writer" for her blind stepmother, is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest and most effective slave uprisings in the history of America.

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