March 11, 1903, New York City. The diary of Zipporah Feldman, a jewish Immigrant girl.

In Pompeii, in the summer of A.D. 79, Julia and Mitka appear to lead opposite lives. Julia is the daughter of a wealthy ship-builder; Mitka is an orphan. Julia bears the Curse of Venus-a withered arm; Mitka's beauty turns heads. Julia is free; Mit...

Bring the past alive with quick links to explore over 140 additional screens of additional reference and encyclopedia content, streaming audio reenactments, images of relevant source documents, and photographs of historic individuals. As the figh...

Thirteen-year-old Gabriella SchrammÆs favorite pastime is reading. With Adolf Hitler slowly but unstoppably rising to power, Gaby turns to her books for comfort while the world around her changes dramatically: The streets become filled with sol...

The minute she had opened the trunk, she knew there wasn't anything like hope in it. Just awful musty things, but each one with a kind of terrible dark halo around it. She picked up that piece of old lace. She saw ...

Acclaimed author Kathryn Lasky explores the nature of friendship in three delightful stories for beginning readers.

The year is 1897, and gifted violinist Reuven Bloom is fifteen years old. Life for the Jews in Russia is very hard. First Reuven’s best friend is captured to serve in the Tsar’s army, and then his parents and older sister are murdered. ...

When rumors of wild unicorns come to Camp Princess, there's a frenzy of excitement as the royal maidens prepare for the Unicorn Round-Up. But Princess Gundersnap has more important things to worry about. Her war-i...

Bob is a pirate. With his gold earring and long scar on his nose, he sails the seas on the ship Black Bird, serving his captain by robbing ships of gold and other treasure.

Before she was Maid Marian, she was Matty. . . . Matty has been raised to dance well, embroider exquisitely, and marry nobly. But when Matty's mother is murdered before her very eyes and her father, a noblema...