"The planes approached, flying shallow this time, with the blood-red Japanese symbol of the rising sun painted on their bodies, looking fierce and terrifying. Suddenly, 'Boom boom,' the ground shook violently...." This is a trilogy of chronicled historical novels, six books in total, based on historical events in China during the 20th century and the personal experiences of the author's family members. The time spans a hundred years, the space spans across China from southwest to northeast, west to east, and finally across America and Canada. The characters in the story all have prototypes. Based on the life experiences of two generations of women, their growth, love, and marriage reveal the traditional Chinese natural farming society and its destruction, particularly the destruction of the gentry and intellectuals, as well as the tragic crushing of ordinary people by communist totalitarian tyranny. It is a romance and a history. It is also a journey of Chinese women's psychological and physiological growth in the 20th century. The historical events, geography, place names, streets, and customs in the story are all true, one of the manors is the old house of the author's family. It is already dilapidated, but the place is still named after the old house, and the name “Stone Garden” can be seen on Google Maps. Phoenix Works: phoenixnestca.wordpress.com/en

Jocelyn washes ashore, alone, naked, and missing her memories. Taken in by a scheming old woman, Jocelyn struggles to learn whom she can trust in a foreign world. Aidan Boyd just may be that person. Captain of a merchant ship, he offers safety as Jocelyn searches for her past. But the ocean calls to her. Is she of this world? Or from the sea?

The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times bestselling series! Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck -- he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their Aunt Daisy. The ship is full of exciting places to explore, but when George ventures into the first class storage cabin, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever. Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in this New York Times bestselling series. Readers will be transported by stories of amazing kids and how they survived!

Ms. Frizzle's class takes school excursions on the Magic School Bus and encounter all kinds of weird and wonderful scientific challenges.

From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.

This eerily prescient novella from 1898 — 14 years before the Titanic disaster — tells of an "unsinkable" luxury liner's maiden voyage across the Atlantic and her disastrous collision with an iceberg.

Text and illustrations look at the sinking of the Swedish warship Vasa in 1628.