Children/Young Adult
Pawns
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Balbriggan, Ireland, 1919. The First World War is over, but the increasingly violent demands for Irish independence are threatening to precipitate war with the ...Read Review
Cold Summer
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Kale Jackson is a high school dropout, a disappointment to his father, and an annoyance to his older brother. Kale is also a ...Read Review
Hunting Prince Dracula
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Hunting Prince Dracula is the second in the Stalking Jack the Ripper series by Kerri Maniscalco. In this installment, Audrey Rose Wadsworth and ...Read Review
Young Bond: Red Nemesis
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1935. Young James Bond’s school term in Edinburgh has ended, and he’s on the train to London with his Aunt Charmian. They ...Read Review
Max
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April 20, 1936, on the Führer’s birthday, our preternaturally cognizant hero is born to a blond-haired, blue-eyed mother who has given her fertility ...Read Review
Saxon Tales: The King Who Threw Away His Throne
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Books by Terry Deary are always popular for younger children, and this is one of his new Saxon Tales. The King who Threw ...Read Review
Concentration Camps of Canada
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In late 19th-century Canada, residential schools were created for the sole purpose of removing indigenous children from their homes in order to teach ...Read Review
Saxon Tales: The Shepherd Who Ate His Sheep
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10th century, Maidstone, Kent. This tale is based on a true story of a starving shepherd boy, Edward Medway, who, one winter, cut ...Read Review
Saxon Tales: The Lord Who Lost His Head
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The Lord Who Lost his Head is set in the 8th century in the reign of King Offa of Mercia (famous for building ...Read Review
Saxon Tales: The Witch Who Faced the Fire
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York, 7th century A.D. Young Aldith is only five when the plague comes. Her father is a tanner, who turns animal skins ...Read Review