September (The Christina Dandridge Story) (Been So Long)
by Adrienne Thompson
A Knight of the White Cross (Works of G. A. Henty (Paperback)) (Works of G. A. Henty (Hardcover))
by G A Henty
Ivoe gets a scholarship to college and eventually flees the Jim Crow South to settle in Kansas City, where she helps found the first female-run African-American newspaper.
John Casor (John Casor Screenplay, #1)
by Mayumi Takadanobaba and Giovanni Vines
Ambitious and masterfully-wrought, Lauren Francis-Sharma's Book of the Little Axe is an incredible journey, spanning decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of warring colonial powers and westward expansion. In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendon quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in ru...
Barnaby Rudge (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
by Charles Dickens
A young man's innocent involvement in a revolt serves as the basis for Dickens's historical novel about the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780.