Best Historical Fiction For Young Adults Books

Best Free Historical Fiction For Young Adults Books of 2024

  • Balarian reviews

    Balarian Book Reviews

    Miguel Ángel Villar Pinto

    ¡ Bestseller internacional! ¡Miles de ejemplares vendidos! «Rigurosamente documentada, la obra aporta una visión fiel de la época medieval», El Ideal Gallego. Incluida en el catálo...

  • The Lion of Saint Mark reviews

    The Lion of Saint Mark Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    A story of Venice in the 14th century, a period when her strength and splendor were put to the severest tests. The hero displays a fine sense and manliness which carry him safely t...

  • The Little Duke reviews

    The Little Duke Book Reviews

    Charlotte Mary Yonge

    The main character is Richard Duke of Normandy, the great grandfather of William the Conqueror. At the beginning of the tale he is a boy of eight, who succeeds to the dukedom when ...

  • St. George and St. Michael Volume II reviews

    St. George and St. Michael Volume II Book Reviews

    George MacDonald

    Tensions are rising between king and parliament, the Church of England and the numerous independent puritans, and rumours abound that Charles I will soon declare open war on the di...

  • True to the Old Flag reviews

    True to the Old Flag Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    This story revolves around the War for Independence. Bunkers Hill, Treton, the capture of Philadelphia, Saratoga, Savannah, and South Carolina are locations in this story. This sto...

  • The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea reviews

    The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Book Reviews

    Gomes Eannes de Zurara

    The first volume includes about half of the text, together with an Introduction on the Life and Writings of Azurara, which it is hoped will be found more exhaustive and accurate th...

  • On the Irrawaddy reviews

    On the Irrawaddy Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    The British waged three costly wars against the Burmese Empire during the 19th century. The costly wars took the lives of over 15,000 British and Indian soldiers. When the final wa...

  • A Little Girl of Long Ago reviews

    A Little Girl of Long Ago Book Reviews

    Amanda Minnie Douglas

    This is a novel book. A chance like this roused the children to a pitch of the wildest enthusiasm. Wonderful posters were put up. It was not considered a circus at all, but a moral...

  • A Little Girl in Old Detroit reviews

    A Little Girl in Old Detroit Book Reviews

    Amanda Minnie Douglas

    This is a novel book. When La Motte Cadillac first sailed up the Strait of Detroit he kept his impressions for after travelers and historians, by transcribing them in his journal. ...

  • Taken by the Enemy reviews

    Taken by the Enemy Book Reviews

    Oliver Optic

    A lively story based at the very start of America's great Civil War. I absolutely loved the nautical twist this book gave to a popular period in our nation's history. Oli...

  • Mary of Plymouth reviews

    Mary of Plymouth Book Reviews

    James Otis

    James Otis Kaler, known under pen name James Otis, was an American journalist and author of children’s literature, published over the 150 books for young readers.  “Mary o...

  • Chasing an Iron Horse reviews

    Chasing an Iron Horse Book Reviews

    Edward Robins

    The lightning flashes, the mutterings of thunder, like the low growls of some angry animal, and the shrieking of the wind through swaying branches, gave a weird, uncanny effect to ...

  • For the Faith reviews

    For the Faith Book Reviews

    Evelyn Everett-Green

    A young man who stood with his elbow on the mantelshelf, his eye fixed eagerly on the speaker's face, here broke in with a quick impetuosity of manner, which seemed in keeping...

  • The Corns Visit the 13 Colonies reviews

    The Corns Visit the 13 Colonies Book Reviews

    Matthew Farber

    Join Damitria the Unicorn, Henrietta the Hippocorn, and Willamina the Shnoopacorn on an exciting trip back in time to visit the original 13 American colonies! This book features an...

  • Young Soldier reviews

    Young Soldier Book Reviews

    Anonymous

    A book that describes soldiers for the young folks. The book also has a pictorial discription of the same, thus describing different gestures and postures of the soldier with the h...

  • The Dare Boys of 1776 reviews

    The Dare Boys of 1776 Book Reviews

    Stephen Angus Cox

    Younger readers with an interest in history and battlefield action will appreciate this thrilling fictionalized account of the Revolutionary War. Part of the popular "Dare Boy...

  • The Texan Star reviews

    The Texan Star Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    The story begins in Mexico City where Stephen Austin and his young friend Ned are in jail. Ned manages to escape and begins the adventure of traveling back to Texas to warn the oth...

  • The Scouts of Stonewall reviews

    The Scouts of Stonewall Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    The story of the Great Valley campaign, in Altsheler's Civil War series. This book is for young teenagers and is part of a series of books that tell the story of the American ...

  • Marching on Niagara reviews

    Marching on Niagara Book Reviews

    Edward Stratemeyer

    The story follows the fortunes of David Morris, the son of a hardy pioneer, who first settled at Will's Creek (now the town of Cumberland, Virginia), and later on established ...

  • Farthest North reviews

    Farthest North Book Reviews

    Fridtjof Nansen

    The book is Farthest North, Volume I. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 189396 and of a Fifteen Months Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut Johansen by...

  • Queen of Someday reviews

    Queen of Someday Book Reviews

    Sherry D. Ficklin

    For fans of the Netflix original series, The Last Czars. Take a decadent look back at one of the most intriguing monarchs in history… “A must read romance!”~ Serena Chase, Special ...

  • The Lion of the North reviews

    The Lion of the North Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    In this novel about the Thirty Years' War, 16yearold Malcolm Graheme is a Scot who volunteered to fight with the military forces conducted by the celebrated Gustavus Adolphus....

  • On The Blockade reviews

    On The Blockade Book Reviews

    Oliver Optic

    The writer begs to remind his readers again that he has not felt called upon to invest his story with the dignity of history, or in all cases to mingle fiction with actual historic...

  • The High Crown Chronicles reviews

    The High Crown Chronicles Book Reviews

    Jodi Gallegos

    When a crown is at stake, blood will be shed… The High Crown Chronicles is cinematic storytelling at its best. With stunning imagery, dynamic characters, and a slowburn romance, Jo...

  • The Hunters of the Hills reviews

    The Hunters of the Hills Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    This book is the first volume of a series dealing with the great struggle of France and England and their colonies for dominion in North America, culminating with the fall of Quebe...

  • While Princesses Sleep reviews

    While Princesses Sleep Book Reviews

    Emma Right

    The Princesses Of Chadwick Castle Adventure is an eightbook series about two princess sisters, Elle age 12, and Belle, 10.  The first book, While Princesses Sleep, is for ...

  • Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry reviews

    Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry Book Reviews

    Andrew Brown

    This is a history book. Since war has been teacher, farmer, business man and cattle man in the West, Is broken in health. Rheumatism and other debilities. Saws he cant work much. W...

  • Escape to Brookeville reviews

    Escape to Brookeville Book Reviews

    Lori Jones

    Susan Harrison Smith, age 10, escapes to Brookeville with her family before the burning of Washington in 1814. She stays at the Bentley home in Brookeville, Maryland, where James M...

  • Sapho reviews

    Sapho Book Reviews

    Alphonse Daudet

    Ces bouts de phrases, presque inintelligibles au milieu des cris, des rires, des airs de danse dune fête travestie, séchangeaient une nuit de juin entre un pifferaro et une femme...

  • One of the 28th reviews

    One of the 28th Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    One of the 28th by G. A. Hently is a great story about a boy’s introduction to a world at war. When meek Herbert Penfold makes an unexpectedly bold decision to leave his estate to ...

  • Prince of Macedonia reviews

    Prince of Macedonia Book Reviews

    Katherine Roberts

    This first episode of Katherine Roberts' epic novel "I am the Great Horse" tells how the young Prince Alexander tames the spirited stallion nobody else could master,...

  • The Thirsty Sword reviews

    The Thirsty Sword Book Reviews

    Robert Leighton

    It was full of historical facts of scottish history in the western isles, especially of their battles with the then ruling king of norway.

  • In Wild Rose Time reviews

    In Wild Rose Time Book Reviews

    Amanda M. Douglas

    This is a romance book. They dropped in at the open window, and landed on Virginia Deering’s lap. Her first impulse was to throw them out again, as she half said to herself, “I hat...

  • Otto of the Silver Hand reviews

    Otto of the Silver Hand Book Reviews

    Howard Pyle

    The story of little Otto, a gentle, peaceloving child born into the heart of turmoil and strife in the castle of a feuding robber baron in medieval Germany.

  • The Minute Boys of Boston reviews

    The Minute Boys of Boston Book Reviews

    James Otis

    Archie Hemming is as straightheaded a boy as was ever raised in Boston town, and he insists that, while we are seemingly idling our time away here in the Cambridge camp, I ought to...

  • The Boy Crusaders reviews

    The Boy Crusaders Book Reviews

    John George Edgar

    It was the age of chain armour and tournamentsof iron barons and barons' warsof pilgrims and armed pilgrimagesof forests and forest outlawswhen Henry III. reigned as ...

  • Pollyanna reviews

    Pollyanna Book Reviews

    Eleanor Hodgman Porter

    I have married a mountain woman, he wrote. "None of your puny breed of modern femininity, but a remnant left over from the heroic ages, a primitive woman, grand and vast of s...

  • Rujub, the Juggler reviews

    Rujub, the Juggler Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    "Rujub, the Juggler", is mainly an historical tale for young and old, dealing with the Sepoy Mutiny, in India, during the years 1857 to 1859. This famous mutiny occurred ...

  • Pinocchio in Africa reviews

    Pinocchio in Africa Book Reviews

    E. Cherubini

    Collodi’s “Pinocchio” tells the story of a wooden marionette and of his efforts to become a real boy. Although he was kindly treated by the old woodcutter, Geppetto, who had fashio...

  • St. George for England reviews

    St. George for England Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    The hero of the story, although of good family, begins life as a London apprentice, but after countless adventures and perils becomes by valor and good conduct the squire, and at l...

  • The Trumpet-Major reviews

    The Trumpet-Major Book Reviews

    Thomas Hardy

    It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty...

  • The North Pole reviews

    The North Pole Book Reviews

    Robert Edwin Peary

    This is a geography book. Some years ago I met at a dinner in Washington the famous Norwegian arctic explorer, Nansen, himself one of the heroes of polar adventure; and he remarked...

  • Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter reviews

    Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter Book Reviews

    Alice Turner Curtis

    This is a historical book. Sylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father and mother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before the opening ...

  • A Little Maid of Old Maine reviews

    A Little Maid of Old Maine Book Reviews

    Alice Turner Curtis

    It is a historical book. A Little Maid of Old Maine is a true story of the brave effort of two girls to bring help to a little settlement on the Maine coast at the time of the War ...

  • Les vacances reviews

    Les vacances Book Reviews

    Sophie Ségur

    Les grandes vacances sont arrivées au château de Fleurville. Camille et Madeleine de Fleurville, accompagnées de leurs amies Sophie Fichini et Marguerite de Rosbourg, accueillent l...

  • A Little Girl in Old Salem reviews

    A Little Girl in Old Salem Book Reviews

    Amanda Minnie Douglas

    This is a novel book. A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg is a novel for children set in late 18th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It opens in 1781 with the news of Lord Cornwallis’ s...

  • The Last Look reviews

    The Last Look Book Reviews

    William Henry Giles Kingston

    It is in the middle of the sixteenth century, and in Spain, where the Inquisition, and subsequent torturing and burning to death by the Catholic of those who would not agree to its...

  • One of Ours reviews

    One of Ours Book Reviews

    Willa Sibert Cather

    Claude Wheeler, the subject of the novel, is a young man growing up on a Nebraska farm. The son of well to do parents, Claude is troubled by his apparent inability to find purpose ...

  • With Frederick the Great reviews

    With Frederick the Great Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, main...

  • The Water-Babies reviews

    The Water-Babies Book Reviews

    Charles Kingsley

    It is a history book. The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upperclass girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. The...

  • The Shades of the Wilderness reviews

    The Shades of the Wilderness Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    This exciting fiction book tells about the civil war history. It is a part of the civil war series. This book is also meant for kids so as to relate to historical events.

  • Fast in the Ice reviews

    Fast in the Ice Book Reviews

    Robert Michael Ballantyne

    At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every case, was to write as far as possi...

  • The Lances of Lynwood reviews

    The Lances of Lynwood Book Reviews

    Charlotte Mary Yonge

    The story is set in the reign of Edward III. The hero, Eustace Lynwood accompanies his elder brother and his troop, the Lances of Lynwood, to France, and with them joins the Black ...

  • Frog in a Bunker reviews

    Frog in a Bunker Book Reviews

    Vytautas V. Landsbergis

    A story about a 12year old boy Adam, whose parents go to Ireland to work and leave him with his aunt in the remote Lithuanian village. Unexpectedly the boy finds himself tangled in...

  • Voice of Gods reviews

    Voice of Gods Book Reviews

    Eleanor Herman

    "Readers who love myth and magic will devour it!" Alex Flinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beastly "Fantasy just the way I like it." Cinda Williams C...

  • The Rulers of the Lakes reviews

    The Rulers of the Lakes Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    Young Robert Lennox and his friend Tayoga, an Onondaga Indian, undertake to make a dangerous journey through the northern wilderness to warn the garrison and settlers gathered at F...

  • Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas reviews

    Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas Book Reviews

    Various Authors

    This collection of Indian stories is the first in a series of volumes of historic tales retold from "St. Nicholas". This bird, which, according to the Indian leg...

  • The Caged Lion reviews

    The Caged Lion Book Reviews

    Charlotte Mary Yonge

    The novel opens in the year 1421. England, though engaged in warfare in France, enjoys peace and prosperity at home, but Scotland is in a state of anarchy. Its king, James I, the c...

  • The Story of Mankind reviews

    The Story of Mankind Book Reviews

    Hendrik Willem Van Loon

    The Story of Mankind tells in brief chapters the history of western civilization beginning with primitive man, covering the development of writi...

  • A Little Maid of Ticonderoga reviews

    A Little Maid of Ticonderoga Book Reviews

    Alice Turner Curtis

    This is the story of a little girl whose home was among the Green Mountains of Vermont, then known as 'The Wilderness', at the beginning of the American Revolution; and a...

Best Paid Historical Fiction For Young Adults Books of 2024

  • Balarian reviews

    Balarian Book Reviews

    Miguel Ángel Villar Pinto

    ¡ Bestseller internacional! ¡Miles de ejemplares vendidos! «Rigurosamente documentada, la obra aporta una visión fiel de la época medieval», El Ideal Gallego. Incluida en el catálo...

  • The Lion of Saint Mark reviews

    The Lion of Saint Mark Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    A story of Venice in the 14th century, a period when her strength and splendor were put to the severest tests. The hero displays a fine sense and manliness which carry him safely t...

  • The Little Duke reviews

    The Little Duke Book Reviews

    Charlotte Mary Yonge

    The main character is Richard Duke of Normandy, the great grandfather of William the Conqueror. At the beginning of the tale he is a boy of eight, who succeeds to the dukedom when ...

  • St. George and St. Michael Volume II reviews

    St. George and St. Michael Volume II Book Reviews

    George MacDonald

    Tensions are rising between king and parliament, the Church of England and the numerous independent puritans, and rumours abound that Charles I will soon declare open war on the di...

  • True to the Old Flag reviews

    True to the Old Flag Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    This story revolves around the War for Independence. Bunkers Hill, Treton, the capture of Philadelphia, Saratoga, Savannah, and South Carolina are locations in this story. This sto...

  • The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea reviews

    The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Book Reviews

    Gomes Eannes de Zurara

    The first volume includes about half of the text, together with an Introduction on the Life and Writings of Azurara, which it is hoped will be found more exhaustive and accurate th...

  • On the Irrawaddy reviews

    On the Irrawaddy Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    The British waged three costly wars against the Burmese Empire during the 19th century. The costly wars took the lives of over 15,000 British and Indian soldiers. When the final wa...

  • A Little Girl of Long Ago reviews

    A Little Girl of Long Ago Book Reviews

    Amanda Minnie Douglas

    This is a novel book. A chance like this roused the children to a pitch of the wildest enthusiasm. Wonderful posters were put up. It was not considered a circus at all, but a moral...

  • A Little Girl in Old Detroit reviews

    A Little Girl in Old Detroit Book Reviews

    Amanda Minnie Douglas

    This is a novel book. When La Motte Cadillac first sailed up the Strait of Detroit he kept his impressions for after travelers and historians, by transcribing them in his journal. ...

  • Taken by the Enemy reviews

    Taken by the Enemy Book Reviews

    Oliver Optic

    A lively story based at the very start of America's great Civil War. I absolutely loved the nautical twist this book gave to a popular period in our nation's history. Oli...

  • Mary of Plymouth reviews

    Mary of Plymouth Book Reviews

    James Otis

    James Otis Kaler, known under pen name James Otis, was an American journalist and author of children’s literature, published over the 150 books for young readers.  “Mary o...

  • Chasing an Iron Horse reviews

    Chasing an Iron Horse Book Reviews

    Edward Robins

    The lightning flashes, the mutterings of thunder, like the low growls of some angry animal, and the shrieking of the wind through swaying branches, gave a weird, uncanny effect to ...

  • For the Faith reviews

    For the Faith Book Reviews

    Evelyn Everett-Green

    A young man who stood with his elbow on the mantelshelf, his eye fixed eagerly on the speaker's face, here broke in with a quick impetuosity of manner, which seemed in keeping...

  • The Corns Visit the 13 Colonies reviews

    The Corns Visit the 13 Colonies Book Reviews

    Matthew Farber

    Join Damitria the Unicorn, Henrietta the Hippocorn, and Willamina the Shnoopacorn on an exciting trip back in time to visit the original 13 American colonies! This book features an...

  • Young Soldier reviews

    Young Soldier Book Reviews

    Anonymous

    A book that describes soldiers for the young folks. The book also has a pictorial discription of the same, thus describing different gestures and postures of the soldier with the h...

  • The Dare Boys of 1776 reviews

    The Dare Boys of 1776 Book Reviews

    Stephen Angus Cox

    Younger readers with an interest in history and battlefield action will appreciate this thrilling fictionalized account of the Revolutionary War. Part of the popular "Dare Boy...

  • The Texan Star reviews

    The Texan Star Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    The story begins in Mexico City where Stephen Austin and his young friend Ned are in jail. Ned manages to escape and begins the adventure of traveling back to Texas to warn the oth...

  • The Scouts of Stonewall reviews

    The Scouts of Stonewall Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    The story of the Great Valley campaign, in Altsheler's Civil War series. This book is for young teenagers and is part of a series of books that tell the story of the American ...

  • Marching on Niagara reviews

    Marching on Niagara Book Reviews

    Edward Stratemeyer

    The story follows the fortunes of David Morris, the son of a hardy pioneer, who first settled at Will's Creek (now the town of Cumberland, Virginia), and later on established ...

  • Farthest North reviews

    Farthest North Book Reviews

    Fridtjof Nansen

    The book is Farthest North, Volume I. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 189396 and of a Fifteen Months Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut Johansen by...

  • Queen of Someday reviews

    Queen of Someday Book Reviews

    Sherry D. Ficklin

    For fans of the Netflix original series, The Last Czars. Take a decadent look back at one of the most intriguing monarchs in history… “A must read romance!”~ Serena Chase, Special ...

  • The Lion of the North reviews

    The Lion of the North Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    In this novel about the Thirty Years' War, 16yearold Malcolm Graheme is a Scot who volunteered to fight with the military forces conducted by the celebrated Gustavus Adolphus....

  • On The Blockade reviews

    On The Blockade Book Reviews

    Oliver Optic

    The writer begs to remind his readers again that he has not felt called upon to invest his story with the dignity of history, or in all cases to mingle fiction with actual historic...

  • The High Crown Chronicles reviews

    The High Crown Chronicles Book Reviews

    Jodi Gallegos

    When a crown is at stake, blood will be shed… The High Crown Chronicles is cinematic storytelling at its best. With stunning imagery, dynamic characters, and a slowburn romance, Jo...

  • The Hunters of the Hills reviews

    The Hunters of the Hills Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    This book is the first volume of a series dealing with the great struggle of France and England and their colonies for dominion in North America, culminating with the fall of Quebe...

  • While Princesses Sleep reviews

    While Princesses Sleep Book Reviews

    Emma Right

    The Princesses Of Chadwick Castle Adventure is an eightbook series about two princess sisters, Elle age 12, and Belle, 10.  The first book, While Princesses Sleep, is for ...

  • Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry reviews

    Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry Book Reviews

    Andrew Brown

    This is a history book. Since war has been teacher, farmer, business man and cattle man in the West, Is broken in health. Rheumatism and other debilities. Saws he cant work much. W...

  • Escape to Brookeville reviews

    Escape to Brookeville Book Reviews

    Lori Jones

    Susan Harrison Smith, age 10, escapes to Brookeville with her family before the burning of Washington in 1814. She stays at the Bentley home in Brookeville, Maryland, where James M...

  • Sapho reviews

    Sapho Book Reviews

    Alphonse Daudet

    Ces bouts de phrases, presque inintelligibles au milieu des cris, des rires, des airs de danse dune fête travestie, séchangeaient une nuit de juin entre un pifferaro et une femme...

  • One of the 28th reviews

    One of the 28th Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    One of the 28th by G. A. Hently is a great story about a boy’s introduction to a world at war. When meek Herbert Penfold makes an unexpectedly bold decision to leave his estate to ...

  • Prince of Macedonia reviews

    Prince of Macedonia Book Reviews

    Katherine Roberts

    This first episode of Katherine Roberts' epic novel "I am the Great Horse" tells how the young Prince Alexander tames the spirited stallion nobody else could master,...

  • The Thirsty Sword reviews

    The Thirsty Sword Book Reviews

    Robert Leighton

    It was full of historical facts of scottish history in the western isles, especially of their battles with the then ruling king of norway.

  • In Wild Rose Time reviews

    In Wild Rose Time Book Reviews

    Amanda M. Douglas

    This is a romance book. They dropped in at the open window, and landed on Virginia Deering’s lap. Her first impulse was to throw them out again, as she half said to herself, “I hat...

  • Otto of the Silver Hand reviews

    Otto of the Silver Hand Book Reviews

    Howard Pyle

    The story of little Otto, a gentle, peaceloving child born into the heart of turmoil and strife in the castle of a feuding robber baron in medieval Germany.

  • The Minute Boys of Boston reviews

    The Minute Boys of Boston Book Reviews

    James Otis

    Archie Hemming is as straightheaded a boy as was ever raised in Boston town, and he insists that, while we are seemingly idling our time away here in the Cambridge camp, I ought to...

  • The Boy Crusaders reviews

    The Boy Crusaders Book Reviews

    John George Edgar

    It was the age of chain armour and tournamentsof iron barons and barons' warsof pilgrims and armed pilgrimagesof forests and forest outlawswhen Henry III. reigned as ...

  • Pollyanna reviews

    Pollyanna Book Reviews

    Eleanor Hodgman Porter

    I have married a mountain woman, he wrote. "None of your puny breed of modern femininity, but a remnant left over from the heroic ages, a primitive woman, grand and vast of s...

  • Rujub, the Juggler reviews

    Rujub, the Juggler Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    "Rujub, the Juggler", is mainly an historical tale for young and old, dealing with the Sepoy Mutiny, in India, during the years 1857 to 1859. This famous mutiny occurred ...

  • Pinocchio in Africa reviews

    Pinocchio in Africa Book Reviews

    E. Cherubini

    Collodi’s “Pinocchio” tells the story of a wooden marionette and of his efforts to become a real boy. Although he was kindly treated by the old woodcutter, Geppetto, who had fashio...

  • St. George for England reviews

    St. George for England Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    The hero of the story, although of good family, begins life as a London apprentice, but after countless adventures and perils becomes by valor and good conduct the squire, and at l...

  • The Trumpet-Major reviews

    The Trumpet-Major Book Reviews

    Thomas Hardy

    It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty...

  • The North Pole reviews

    The North Pole Book Reviews

    Robert Edwin Peary

    This is a geography book. Some years ago I met at a dinner in Washington the famous Norwegian arctic explorer, Nansen, himself one of the heroes of polar adventure; and he remarked...

  • Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter reviews

    Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter Book Reviews

    Alice Turner Curtis

    This is a historical book. Sylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father and mother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before the opening ...

  • A Little Maid of Old Maine reviews

    A Little Maid of Old Maine Book Reviews

    Alice Turner Curtis

    It is a historical book. A Little Maid of Old Maine is a true story of the brave effort of two girls to bring help to a little settlement on the Maine coast at the time of the War ...

  • Les vacances reviews

    Les vacances Book Reviews

    Sophie Ségur

    Les grandes vacances sont arrivées au château de Fleurville. Camille et Madeleine de Fleurville, accompagnées de leurs amies Sophie Fichini et Marguerite de Rosbourg, accueillent l...

  • A Little Girl in Old Salem reviews

    A Little Girl in Old Salem Book Reviews

    Amanda Minnie Douglas

    This is a novel book. A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg is a novel for children set in late 18th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It opens in 1781 with the news of Lord Cornwallis’ s...

  • The Last Look reviews

    The Last Look Book Reviews

    William Henry Giles Kingston

    It is in the middle of the sixteenth century, and in Spain, where the Inquisition, and subsequent torturing and burning to death by the Catholic of those who would not agree to its...

  • One of Ours reviews

    One of Ours Book Reviews

    Willa Sibert Cather

    Claude Wheeler, the subject of the novel, is a young man growing up on a Nebraska farm. The son of well to do parents, Claude is troubled by his apparent inability to find purpose ...

  • With Frederick the Great reviews

    With Frederick the Great Book Reviews

    George Alfred Henty

    Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, main...

  • The Water-Babies reviews

    The Water-Babies Book Reviews

    Charles Kingsley

    It is a history book. The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upperclass girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. The...

  • The Shades of the Wilderness reviews

    The Shades of the Wilderness Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    This exciting fiction book tells about the civil war history. It is a part of the civil war series. This book is also meant for kids so as to relate to historical events.

  • Fast in the Ice reviews

    Fast in the Ice Book Reviews

    Robert Michael Ballantyne

    At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every case, was to write as far as possi...

  • The Lances of Lynwood reviews

    The Lances of Lynwood Book Reviews

    Charlotte Mary Yonge

    The story is set in the reign of Edward III. The hero, Eustace Lynwood accompanies his elder brother and his troop, the Lances of Lynwood, to France, and with them joins the Black ...

  • Frog in a Bunker reviews

    Frog in a Bunker Book Reviews

    Vytautas V. Landsbergis

    A story about a 12year old boy Adam, whose parents go to Ireland to work and leave him with his aunt in the remote Lithuanian village. Unexpectedly the boy finds himself tangled in...

  • Voice of Gods reviews

    Voice of Gods Book Reviews

    Eleanor Herman

    "Readers who love myth and magic will devour it!" Alex Flinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beastly "Fantasy just the way I like it." Cinda Williams C...

  • The Rulers of the Lakes reviews

    The Rulers of the Lakes Book Reviews

    Joseph Alexander Altsheler

    Young Robert Lennox and his friend Tayoga, an Onondaga Indian, undertake to make a dangerous journey through the northern wilderness to warn the garrison and settlers gathered at F...

  • Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas reviews

    Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas Book Reviews

    Various Authors

    This collection of Indian stories is the first in a series of volumes of historic tales retold from "St. Nicholas". This bird, which, according to the Indian leg...

  • The Caged Lion reviews

    The Caged Lion Book Reviews

    Charlotte Mary Yonge

    The novel opens in the year 1421. England, though engaged in warfare in France, enjoys peace and prosperity at home, but Scotland is in a state of anarchy. Its king, James I, the c...

  • The Story of Mankind reviews

    The Story of Mankind Book Reviews

    Hendrik Willem Van Loon

    The Story of Mankind tells in brief chapters the history of western civilization beginning with primitive man, covering the development of writi...

  • A Little Maid of Ticonderoga reviews

    A Little Maid of Ticonderoga Book Reviews

    Alice Turner Curtis

    This is the story of a little girl whose home was among the Green Mountains of Vermont, then known as 'The Wilderness', at the beginning of the American Revolution; and a...