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In first century Rome, in the turmoil after a rumor circulates that mad Emperor "Littleboots" is dead, young Marcus brings home a horse that the emperor had proclaimed a consul and his family decides they must treat it as an honored guest.

Tatiana and Dasha Metanova are living in Leningrad during 1941 when Hitler's army invades the country.

In 1948, Nikko Spirakis, twelve, loves baseball but must get past his hard-working immigrant parents--and the rhino in the outfield--to become a batboy for the local minor league team.

In 1952, two brothers, aged nine and ten, enjoy a year filled with fun and adventure in the farmlands of northeastern Illinois.

Vernon and his family struggle to help their neighbors survive the deadly Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.

In Romania in 1989, when people who say or do the wrong thing disappear, ten-year-old aspiring writer Ileana copes with fear, hunger, and cruelty by writing new endings to stories, including her own.

Cassie Logan, now a young woman, has gone from the Logan family home in Toledo, then to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and finally in the 1960s back to Mississippi where it all started.

With her father fighting in World War II and her mother's depression becoming worse and worse, twelve-year-old Ellen and her mom move to her Aunt Pearl's small cottage at the base of Snowden Mountain where she discovers the importance of family and friendship.

"Just turned twelve, Lily is the oldest of the three children in her Chinese American family living in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake hits; her family has survived the quake, but as the city starts to burn Lily and her younger brother are separated from the others and must get to the safety of Oakland across the bay and hope that the rest of their family and friends are there waiting for them--but between the fire and the anti-Chinese violence it is not certain that any of them will survive.

During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.

While caring for her team of horses, fourteen-year-old Eliza Carter struggles with her twin brother's involvement with rebel farmers and an approaching war that might divide her family.

Ginny Rose and Peggy became best friends when Ginny Rose's family came to work as pickers on Peggy's family's peach farm.

"Based on the true story of an earthquake that shook Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula, [this book] tells the tale of this forgotten disaster from the point of view of a young girl whose life is turned upside down.

Employs poetic verse to describe the life of twelve-year-old Rima who lives with her mother and grandmother, but has no rights according to the 1920s-era Cuban government because she was born out of wedlock.