These girls have survived it all: the Trojan War, the French Revolution, pirates on the high seas, the Wild West, World War II, and more! Travel through history with these heroines and their fast-paced adventures.
Private William Mandella discovers his military service on faster that light ships makes for battles across centuries and difficult personal relationships. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Based on an actual account from 1650, a servant girl made pregnant by the master’s grandson is hanged after her baby is found dead. What happens after a shy young doctor sees her eyelids flicker on the dissecting table makes for edge-of-the-seat reading.
Sold as a slave to a Tory family in 1776, 13-year-old Isabel, struggling to free herself and her slow-witted younger sister, soon faces daunting choices.
By Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
This biography in verse captures the teen years and early career of the legendary jazz singer. Billie’s penchant for trouble and the hardships she overcame provide a compelling narrative while Cooper's illustrations complement the lyricism of the text.
From the desperately poor Irish villages of the 19th century potato famine to the streets of London and Liverpool, from the misery of crossing the Atlantic in steerage to the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the lives of several young people and various villains intersect fatefully in this page-turning, cinematic drama.
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.,
Determined to fend for herself in a world where only men have real freedom, headstrong Helen, who will be called queen of Sparta and Helen of Troy one day, learns to fight, hunt, and ride horses while disguised as a boy, and goes on an adventure throughout the Mediterranean world.
Still longing for adventure, Princess Helen of Sparta maintains her disguise as a boy to join her unsuspecting brothers as part of the crew of the Argo, the ship commanded by Prince Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece.
