Children/Young Adult
The Pale Assassin
Eugenie de Boncoeur is a typical 14-year-old aristocrat in France during its Revolution: unaware and frivolous. Although her portrayal is…
On Viney’s Mountain
Viney Walker’s world is changing, and she doesn’t like it one bit. Orphaned along with her older brother and sister…
Once & Then
Once & Then was originally two books, coming together for the first time in this edition. Initially, you feel it…
Alice in Love and War
It is 1644: the English Civil War. Orphaned Alice Newcome, age sixteen, is living with her uncle’s family in Devon.…
Tassie and the Black Baron
In this lively time-slip story (think Monty Python and the Holy Grail meets the dysfunctional family from hell) tearaway Tassie…
Time of the Witches
Salem Village, 1692. Family quarrels and neighbor rivalries promise trouble in the Salem community, but 14-year-old Drucilla is blind to…
The Prophet from Ephesus
I was sad to learn, on doing the research for this review, that there is only one book in Lawrence’s…
The Goldsmith’s Daughter
Editors' choice
This young adult novel follows 15-year old Itacate through a life at the heart of the Aztec Empire on the…
Lady Macbeth’s Daughter
In her third historical for teens, Lisa Klein offers a new take on Macbeth’s bloody rise to power through the…
Eli the Good
Eli Book is living through the post-Vietnam War frenzy of 1976. His father fought nobly for his country, only to…
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