19th Century
The Storm Before Atlanta
It’s 1863, and young Jeremy DeGroot desperately wants to have his share of the glories of war. Dulcie is a…
The Last Full Measure
It is 1863, and fourteen-year-old Tacy and her family are caught up in the Battle of Gettysburg, trying to survive…
A Slip in Time
First published in 2001, A & C Black are re-issuing this series of strongly written, educationally driven tales under the…
The Double Life of Cora Parry
When orphan Cora’s brutal guardian dies, she imagines she will be free to do whatever she wants. Instead, she finds…
Skeeter’s Dream
Skeeter Tates lives in a small Texas town in 1867, a particularly painful time for him, as he lost his…
Rebellion
In October 1812, the Russian winter closes in on Napoleon and his army as they reach the outskirts of Moscow.…
Dakota, Or What’s a Heaven For
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This dense, splendid novel, set in the Dakota Territory in the 1870s and ’80s, rests on the shoulders of two…
Daniel
Sweden in the 1870s. Hans Bengler, a dilettante permanent student, decides almost on a whim that he wants to travel…
The Ballad of John Clare
Very little is known about the early life of John Clare, the ‘peasant poet’ who was a contemporary of Keats…
Take Me Home
Young Addie Maine travels alone from Kentucky to Wyoming in the 1880s; she walks, hitches rides on wagons, and hops…
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