Historical Fiction

The Cay

The Cay By: Theodore Taylor Age Recommendation 8+  3.5/5 11-year-old Phillip Enright and his mother had just boarded a ship to Virginia, because it was unsafe to stay in Curacao with the German submarines surrounding the area. The ship gets torpedoed and Phillip is stranded at sea with an old black man named Timothy

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Rifles for Watie

Rifles for Watie By: Harold Keith Age Recommendation 10+  3.5/5 Jefferson David Bussey was living on a farm in Linn County, Kansas when Watie men came to raid his farm. His family put up a fight and the Watie men eventually took off when men from neighboring farms came to help, but they gave

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