Biographical Fiction

While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the Western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State....

At the front of a middle-school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says....

Fully authorized by and written in cooperation with the Muhammad Ali estate, Becoming Muhammad Ali captures the budding charisma and youthful personality of one of the greatest sports heroes of all time....

In 1939, the Germans invaded the town of Lodz, Poland, and moved the Jewish population into a small part of the city called a ghetto....

It's the turn of the 20th century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters...

Among all the lawmen of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves....

Neftalí’s father wants him to be a doctor. But Neftalí is not like other children....

When 16-year-old Helmuth Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people....

This is a most fitting tribute to a great man who proudly celebrated the history of African-Americans, from slavery to civil rights struggles....

A young girl dreams of bringing clean drinking water to her African village. As a child in Burkina Faso, Georgie and the other girls in her village had to walk for miles each day to collect water. This vibrant, engaging story sheds light on this struggle....

Betty Before X is the story of Dr. Betty Shabazz before she became a figurehead for the Civil Rights Movement....

Acclaimed author of the Parents’ Choice Jim & Me, Dan Gutman adds a fictional twist to the true story of pitching legend “Satchel” Paige....

Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

Gary Paulsen has owned dozens of unforgettable and amazing dogs....

The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold....

A beautiful, empowering book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true story from the childhood of the author's aunt, Kamala Harris, and mother, lawyer, and policy expert Maya Harris....

Patrick McDonnell tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee....

Rifka knows nothing about America when she flees from Russia with her family in 1919....

Meet Peace Pilgrim, who crossed the U.S. on foot seven times with only the clothes on her back to spread her message of peace....

Jackson fought poverty and sadness, rising to become one of the most extraordinary figures in American military history....

Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable....

From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.....

Pollyanna, an expert at her favorite "Glad Game" of always looking at the bright side in her numerous trials, is one of the most popular and enduring characters in all of children's literature....

In this fictionalized journal, Anastasia Romanov lives again....

Sarah Miller's accomplished debut presents a fictionalized account of Anne Sullivan's life and her time as Helen Keller's teacher....

In 43 CE Roman conquest of Britannia seems all but certain - until a chance meeting between King Prasutagus of the Iceni and a runaway slave of royal decent....

This heartwarming fictionalized autobiography tells the story of what it is like for a little girl to be growing up in an unfamiliar place....

Iqbal, a 13-year-old boy, fights for children's liberation....

The Children's Book of Heroes is a celebration of the endurance, sacrifice, courage, and compassion that characterize truly heroic deeds....

Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy, Aggie hasn't got much to do since the death of her beloved father...until the fateful day when she crosses paths with 12-year-old Belgian immigrant Hector Perot....