La Llorona (The Crying Woman) is a sad and haunting tale from Mexico. Parents have told the story...

Most people take it for granted: riding a bike. In the late 1800s, the bicycle first came to the ...

Lonely and bored with rural life in 1856, young Bella Lee Dunkinson began to hang around the loca...

A young adult adventure with a completely new take on the Greek Olympian gods. When a ragtag ci...

In 1807 at the age of 13, Brenton Dixon lived in Albany, New York, and expected to become a black...

The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was killed by an assassin's bullet on Ap...

In the early 1800s, white settlers and missionaries were intent on bringing the English language ...

Middle-schoolers Gregory Guest and Yolanda Torres have no intention of becoming heroes. But as th...

In 1845, Frederick Douglass's first autobiography became a bestseller. Many readers could not bel...

The United States of America in the late 1840s - a nation torn by the crime of slavery and a war ...

Slavery in the United States became illegal in the 1860s. Before that, many slaves found their wa...

Classic stories retold in exciting graphic novel format. Each title includes high-quality artwork...