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Juvenile fiction

Bound

Donna Jo Napoli

In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone

Forever in Blue

Ann Brashares

As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.

Sorceress

Celia Rees

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England

Witch Child

Celia Rees

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats

Carolyn Meyer

Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only frien

A Navajo Saga

Kay Bennett

The history of a Navajo family from 1846 to 1870 as they fought to maintain their homelands and dignity against the white man.

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A Fanfare for the Stalwart

Thomas Gerald Wheeler

The fortunes and fate of a young trumpeter of Napoleon's Cavalry Guard during the disastrous winter retreat from Moscow.

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Drop Into Hell

Gene Olson

Sent to destroy the guns of Amion twenty-four hours before the invasion of Normandy Beach, 'A' Company finds its men dispersed much too thinly with German troops encamped between the company and the t

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