Books like Promises are for keeping by Ann Rinaldi

Carter and Sadie Kane must destroy the chaos snake Apophis, but their quest is threatened by a powerful magician who might guide them to their deaths instead.

Teenage slave Isabel navigates the American Revolution in New York, using her wit and the help of a Patriot spy to fight for her and her sister’s freedom.

Orphaned Kit Tyler arrives in Connecticut Colony and finds freedom only in the company of the Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, but when their friendship is discovered, Kit faces mistrust and witchcraft accusations.

A young boy learns that his new puppy is actually a girl who loves him like a brother.

A tenth‑year‑old Princess Rania, bound by a promise from her parents, journeys to the desert kingdom of Roshan to learn the art of wind and rain from the legendary Sandwriter, continuing the tale begun in Sandwriter.

Twins, magic, and chaos in New York: Conner and Alex confront the impossible in this thrilling conclusion to the Land of Stories series.

A tale of two brothers and a baby coming into the world.

Two young detectives in Switzerland chase a dog bank robber who is actually a Professor Sardine, a clever sleuth in the style of Professor Challenger.

During World War II, ten‑year‑old Kay in New Jersey learns that doing the right thing can be hard and unpredictable.

Brie plans to leave her strict father and move in with her absent mother, but a shocking revelation about her past changes everything.

Five Alaska Native teens—Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq—navigate the challenges of a Catholic boarding school in the early 1960s, discovering friendship and belonging across diverse tribal backgrounds.

A young girl, writing letters for her blind stepmother, is haunted by her unknowing part in Nat Turner's 1831 Southampton rebellion, a pivotal moment in America's slave history.

A young girl's quest for recognition and acceptance as the 'Best Kid in the World'.

Eighteen‑year‑old Sarah Tracy lands at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in 1861, where she safeguards the historic estate’s neutrality during the Civil War and finds love with Upton Herbert.

Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Over a span of five years, sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. Promises I Can Keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the most extensive on-the-ground study to date of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead.

Thirteen‑year‑old Becca becomes a personal maid to Peggy Shippen in Philadelphia and unwittingly finds herself at the center of the 1778 spy activities that culminate in General Benedict Arnold’s treason.