Children/Young Adult
Daughter of Winter
Twelve-year-old Addie is alone. Her father has gone off to California with the Forty-Niners and her mother and brother have…
A Most Improper Magic
A lively, fast-moving story with a high-spirited, adventurous heroine makes Stephanie Burgis’s book historical fiction’s answer to the ever-popular chick…
Letter to My Daughter
Laura and her teenage daughter Liz are fighting, and Liz has run away from the family home. While she waits…
The Education of Bet
Sixteen-year-old Bet yearns to go away to school like her friend Will, but in 19th-century England girls are barred from…
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette
Despite its gimmicky-sounding subtitle, The Bad Queen is a straightforward tale of Marie Antoinette from the time shortly before her…
Leaving Gee’s Bend
(1) Ten-year-old Ludelphia Bennett has never left Gee’s Bend, a sharecropping village on the Alabama River. But her mother is…
The Confederate General Rides North
Eleven-year-old Katherine McConnell is obsessed with the Civil War, particularly the Confederate side. She frequently daydreams about being a Confederate…
The Betrayal
As the novel begins we are straight away in the world of Elizabethan London as Lucy waits with her two…
I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend
This is a very readable “journal” which covers the period from February to April 1791 as written by Jane Austen’s…
Sent: The Missing
In this sequel to Found, four 21st-century teens find themselves transported to the 15th century. Two of the boys, Chip…
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