Children/Young Adult
Bloodline
Set in Britain circa 650 AD, Katy Moran’s debut novel is a coming-of-age story featuring a boy named Essa who…
Ambush at Mustang Canyon
Free Anderson, a former slave, and Parks Scott are partners in a business selling tamed mustangs to the Army in…
The Other Half of Life
Everyone tells fifteen-year-old Thomas Werkmann that he’s finally escaping Nazi Germany on the MS St. Francis, bound for Cuba, but…
Backtracked
In Backtracked the author makes use of the popularity of time travel in fiction to drive home lessons for everyone…
The Mark of Edain
History for animal lovers. Aoife, the niece of Caradoc the chieftain leading the struggle against the Romans in Britain, is…
Betraying Season
Betraying Season, the second entry in Marissa Doyle’s entertaining series featuring 19th-century English twin sisters Penelope and Persy Leland, takes…
The Musician’s Daughter
Christmas Eve in Vienna isn’t a time for celebration. Rather it is a time to mourn, for Theresa’s father is…
Imperfections
In 1862 fourteen-year-old Rosemary Elizabeth Godfrey, her brother Isaac, and baby sister Anne are taken by their mother to the…
A World Away
Set in the 1580s in England and Virginia, this is the love story of Nadie, a Native American girl from…
The Camel Who Crossed Australia
In 1861 Burke and Wills became the first white men to cross the Australian continent from the south to its…
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