by Karen Cushman (2003)
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and to the hazards of a new life.
R. M. Ballantyne
A nineteenth century adventure story of three teenaged boys shipwrecked on a Pacific island. At first they lead an idyllic life but this is soon interrupted by the arrival on the island of rival Polynesian war parties and then pirates. After various adventures the boys find themselves in possession of the pirate’s ship and can sail for home.
Frank Baer
Five German children make their way home from Czechoslovakia across the war-torn countryside of 1945, enduring hardship and danger in the desperate hope of being reunited with their families in Berlin.
(by) Mollie Hunter
Caught up in the struggle between Highland clansmen and the King's soldiers in seventeenth-century Scotland, a young officer gives an account of the Massacre of Glencoe during which he chooses between protecting his own life and career or saving the lives of five hundred people.
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Although they possess heavy armor, horses, and bullets, Hernando Cortez and his invading Spanish armies are no match for the small Seri tribe of northwestern Mexico, especially thirteen-year-old Stranded Whale and his friend Stooping Hawk.