Children/Young Adult
Shelter From the Storm
This final instalment of Jennie Walters’ Swallowcliffe Hall trilogy tells the story of Isobel, the daughter of Grace from…
The Time Thief
Second in the The Gideon Trilogy, The Time Thief also works well as a stand- alone novel. As a…
Freedom Train
Clyde Thomason has everything to live for and plenty to escape! His brother is serving as an Army Guard…
In the Heroic Age of Basil ll : Emperor of Byzantium
Set at the end of the 10th century and the beginning of the 11th, this story is about two…
Battle Fleet : Trafalgar — 1805
(1) In this third Sam Witchall adventure, Sam and his friend Richard have to work their passage home from Sydney…
Bewitching Season
Editors' choice
This delightful debut by Marissa Doyle bodes well for her career as a writer of young adult novels. Set…
Quest
Quest is the story of the fourth of Henry Hudson’s voyages to try to discover the Northwest Passage to…
Nobody’s Princess
Helen of Sparta is in many ways a typical young girl: she dislikes learning the boring carding and spinning…
Nobody’s Prize
Readers may be familiar with the legends and myths of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Medea, Hercules, and Helen…
Your Own, Sylvia : A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Stephanie Hemphill, a poet in her own right, has fashioned a book of verse worthy of her subject. In chronological…
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