Margaret K. McElderry

Betsy and the Emperor

By Staton Rabin - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

It is the fall of 1815 on the remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean when Napoleon Bonaparte arrives there as ...Read Review

Wintering Well

By Lea Wait - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Wintering Well tackles the issue of physical disability in rural Maine around 1820. Twelve-year-old Will Ames loses a leg in an accident just as ...Read Review

I, Dred Scott

By Sheila P. Moses - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

An easy-read young people’s version of the mid-nineteenth century Dred Scott case—in which the Supreme Court shamed itself by declaring that ...Read Review