High School Historical Fiction

Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at the cross road of her life. She is passionate and artistic, but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small costal retreat.

Yankee transplant Daniel Musgrove can't seem to fit in at his Mississippi high school. When he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins, things look up. But then the two boys' battles with a local bully escalate into a violent act that rocks the town.

Sixteen-year-old Hal Stevens is a budding historical scholar from a small town in Colorado. A virtual outcast at high school, he has only two friends: Roberto the Biker Witch and Cleo Mallawi. Cleo claims to be the reincarnation of Queen Cleopatra. But when Hal and Roberto find Cleo murdered in the forest near her home, it appears she may have been telling the truth. Her last request sends them journeying to Egypt, where it quickly becomes clear that Cleo has set them on the search of a lifetime: the search for the lost graves of Marc Antony and Cleopatra.

Internationally best-selling inspirational author Janette Oke is beloved for her novels of faith. Winter Is Not Forever is the continuation of the touching Seasons of the Heart saga begun in Once Upon a Summer and continued in The Winds of Autumn. Featuring a folksy narration by Johnny Heller, this tale of a young man ready to graduate from high school and begin his adult life is touching and poignant.

If you love Lee Strauss’s The Clockwise Series, The Pages of Time by Damien Knight or Rysa Walker’s Chrono’s Files you’re going to love The Time Pedaler series! What do Anne Frank, Elvis, and Teddy Roosevelt have in common? Nothing! Unless you’re a Time Traveler. In Day Tripper, Book #2 of the Time Pedaler Series, Chant is determined to solve the mystery of the Time Machine. Where is the man who built it? What happened to him? To find out, Chant takes on the role of Time Traveling Detective! With half his first year of high school almost over, he finds his new town more and more ...

If you love Lee Strauss’s The Clockwise Series, The Pages of Time by Damien Knight or Rysa Walker’s Chrono’s Files you’re going to love The Time Pedaler series! Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present' – Eleanor Roosevelt There is more to Time Travel than just setting a few knobs and pedaling a hundred and sixty-year-old machine. The intricacies of quantum physics begin to take Chant and company through an ominous series of Time Slips, hindering their most well-intentioned plans. Until now, the trips back in time have been planned and intentional...

Aspiring artist Fanny Price is an unwelcome guest at her uncle Sir Thomas Bertram’s estate. It’s his affection for Fanny that’s keeping her from being forced out by her cousins Tom and Maria and nasty Aunt Norris, back to a home to which she never wants to return. But then Sir Thomas dies in a tragic accident inside his art emporium, and Fanny finds evidence of foul play that, if revealed, could further jeopardize her already precarious position. Edmund, her best friend and secret crush, urges Fanny to keep quiet about her discovery, but Fanny can’t ignore the truth: a murderer is among them.

This anthology contains five short stories previously published in READING for Christian Schools Grade 6 (Bob Jones University Press 1988), updated for a new generation of readers, with plenty of new illustrations. Black and White interior and a full-cover cover. “Val is For Valiant” - An ordinary boy has an extraordinary dream that changes his life. “The Monument” - A game of tag turns into a journey of discovery and danger “Brethren Nisei” - A white American boy watches his Japanese friends undergo persecution during the war “Antarctica” - Two brothers help their uncle ...

A satire of teenage life follows cynical soon-to-graduate Flannery Culp on a raucous journey through high school in the 1990s, covering SATs, college applications, friends, boyfriends, tabloid journalism, and TV talk shows. A first novel.

If you liked Shadows of the Future by Damian Knight or The Clockwise Series by Lee Strauss you're going to love The Time Pedaler! Can going back in time make you more mature? Chant, Kurt, and Moorehart find themselves caught in the middle of an altered timeline, and a dystopian society in a war-torn Sonora, that no longer resembles the home they’ve known. The clash leaves Moorehart injured and craving a simpler life. It seems like a good time for Chant and the gang to enjoy some light-hearted time travel as he heals. Amid all the drama of high school, working two jobs, and personal ...

Max is on a mission to save Alex, who is stranded on the home planet. Alex may be lost or wounded - or worse. To get Alex back, Max knows he'll need one of the Stones of Midnight. If only he knew where to find one.... Liz understands that Max can't rest until he finds Alex. And she's been busy herself - spending time with Roswell newcomer Adam. She's been having so much fun with Adam that Max is in danger...of being forgotten.

If you love Lee Strauss’s The Clockwise Series, The Pages of Time by Damien Knight or Rysa Walker’s Chrono’s Files you’re going to love The Time Pedaler series! Would the world be a better place if you could go back and change history? An old proverb says, “With wisdom comes great responsibility. The wisdom you receive is meant to serve a greater good.” Join Chant as each new journey carries the threat of danger. Go with him to meet Amelia Earhart, land in New York City on 9/11, go to Woodstock, and travel to Ecuador to try and find a supply of crystals for The Pedaler. Along ...

If you liked Shadows of the Future by Damian Knight or The Clockwise Series by Lee Strauss you're going to love The Time Pedaler! Join us for the grand finale of the Time Pedaler series! Chant thinks that he is finally on the other side of stalkers and midnight break-ins and putting everyone he loves in danger until he and his turn-of-the-century friend are ambushed the moment they touch down in the modern world. Now, everything is a ticking clock and he suddenly feels painfully out of control. Somehow the fact that he owns a time machine isn't helping. Chant is forced to come face-to-face ...

Maria hasn't told her friends about the strange glowing ring she found. It seems to be giving her powers - special abilities that let her enter a world she's been dying to experience. Here's her chance to learn what she longs to know: how Michael feels about her. Michael feels all alone on Earth, and he's searching for a place to belong. He didn't count on discovering someone to care about right here in Roswell. Now, he's falling for his best friend. But what he doesn't know, and Maria doesn't realize, is that she's drawing danger to them all....

If you liked Shadows of the Future by Damian Knight or The Clockwise Series by Lee Strauss you're going to love The Time Pedaler! Remember the Alamo! But don’t forget Annie Oakley, Freddie Mercury, and Hitler’s Brown Shirts! As Chant and his friends are thrown deeper and deeper into danger, the need to travel back in time becomes more of a necessity than an adventure. The strange anomaly known as Time Slips has produced effects not expected or understood. The discovery of Journey’s connection to the inventor of the Time Pedaler creates a threat to everything we know and the very ...

Max is out of control. He's lying to his friends, ignoring his family, and has even turned on Liz. Has Max completely lost his mind...or is Max not really Max at all? Liz hasn't felt connected to Max in a long time - not the way she used to be. She knows he isn't the guy she fell in love with. There's something else controlling him. Something sinister. Can Liz help Max break free before he's lost forever?

If you love Lee Strauss’s The Clockwise Series, The Pages of Time by Damien Knight or Rysa Walker’s Chrono’s Files you’re going to love The Time Pedaler series! Chant hopes his senior year might finally be where his life settles down and he's able to enjoy a normal teenage life and his time-traveling secret hobby. However, those plans quickly start to fall apart. The toll of traveling through time finally takes hold of Chant's young body. Now, he finds himself being stalked by Mr. Harlett's university colleagues who know too much about the Pedaler. As if Chant doesn’t have enough ...

Life is progressing normally for sixteen-year-old Dan Renfrew when he accidentally transports himself to England in the year 1066. He soon realizes that he’s trapped there, and that’s not his only astonishing discovery. Dan learns that he’s descended from a long line of time jumpers—secret heroes who travel to the past and resolve glitches in the time stream that threaten to alter subsequent history. The only way Dan can return home is to set history back on its proper course in the Anglo-Saxon age. This is no easy task.

Napoleon Hill was born in the 19th century, changed the world in the 20th century, and is now impacting how we live in the 21st century. Through Jim Stovall's latest novel in his Homecoming Historical Series entitled Top of the Hill, listeners young and old will experience the modern-day impact of Napoleon Hill's timeless lessons.

It’s hard to be an American girl in 1957. Especially when your dad’s job means you have to move four thousand miles from home. Especially if you’d rather play baseball than wear a dress. Especially if you see your mom fraying a little more from anxiety each day. And especially if being five minutes older means you have to protect your fragile twin brother.