Children/Young Adult
Rumours
Manhattan 1899 is the setting for Rumours, the sequel to The Luxe. The name aptly reflects the tone of the…
Cat O’Nine Tails
1791. In this fourth Cat Royal adventure, Cat, dressed as a boy, is kidnapped and taken on board HMS Courageous…
Blown Away
Midway along the Florida Keys lies the island village of Islamorada. The original community was present in the early 1900s,…
Newes from the Dead
1650. This is based on the true story of Anne Green, a young, naïve maidservant who is taken in by…
A Nest of Vipers
London, 1712. Mother Hopkins is the fearsome matriarch of a young criminal gang based in the Nest of Vipers pub.…
Alligator Bayou
Alligator Bayou recounts an overlooked but disturbing episode of American history: the persecution and lynching of Italians immigrants. Calogero arrives…
Magic Tree House: A Wild West Ride
1880s: the American Wild West. In their tenth adventure, Jack and Annie find themselves in Rattlesnake Flats, once a prosperous…
Scarper Jack and the Bloodstained Room
London, 1860s. Eleven-year-old chimney sweep, Jack Tolchard, is inside the well-to-do Shorey family’s chimney. The walls are thin in places,…
Wild Orchid
Editors' choice
In this retelling of “The Ballad of Mulan” for the young adult reader, told in the first person, Cameron Dokey…
No Turning Back
This is the second in KM Peyton’s Roman pony story series featuring Minna, the daughter of the blacksmith at the…
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