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"A graphic-novel telling of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, creating a narrative out of the historical context and what we can imagine of those accused"-- Provided by publisher.

Timid, quiet Prudence the moose is surprised to learn that her very loud and very brave friend, Moxie the raccoon, is afraid of horses.

In long-ago China, as a young princess prepares to leave her parents' kingdom to travel to far-off Khotan where she is to marry the king, she decides to surreptitiously take with her a precious reminder of home.

"Famed illusionist Harry Houdini embarks on a quest to investigate spiritual phenomena and the possibility of communication with those on the 'other side'"-- Provided by publisher.

A biography of Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist whose showy but substantive stunts skyrocketed her to fame.

Seven-year-old Bulu describes events surrounding the arrival of two wolf girls at her orphanage, including attempts to teach them to eat properly and to speak.

Inside every acrostic is a secret message, often lurking in the first letter of each line (read top to bottom). But look out! These acrostics not only follow their subjects to Africa, but they also take the form to a whole new level. Here you'll find the elusive double acrostic (...

A little girl seeks to regain her father's attention during the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland.

Ten gothic horror stories involving counts, ghosts, vampires, witches, sorcerers and more.

In this companion volume to "Gothic! ten original dark tales" discover why we fear the undead.

Two stories in one novel. The first is the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly gave birth to a religious movement that touched tw...

Seventeen-year-old May's trip to Florence with family friends takes a frightening turn when she wakes in the middle of the night to find her ghostly twin standing at the foot of her bed. The ghostly twin wants her to come to Old Florence, to the year 1348. But the Black Death is ...

In her classic ghost story Kerfol, Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband. The elderly lord was found savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs, no live dogs, at Kerfol that day. In this collection of in...

In a series of interwoven fictionalized stories, Deborah Noyes gives voice to the marginalized women in P. T. Barnum's family - and the talented entertainers he built his entertainment empire on. Much has been written about P. T. Barnum - legendary showman, entrepreneur, marke...

Work for a New York newspaper Fall in love Marry a millionaire Change the world Young Nellie Bly had ambitious goals, especially for a woman at the end of the nineteenth century, when the few female journalists were relegated to writing columns about cleaning or fash...

Over the centuries, the inhabitants of author Edith Wharton's fictional mansion, Kerfol, are haunted by the ghosts of dead dogs, fractured relationships, and the bitter taste of revenge.