Amulet
That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1)
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Set in 1605 London, sixteen-year-old Joan Sands is one of the King’s Men: a group of actors under the patronage of King James ...Read Review
Iron Cast
Genres:
Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
This historical urban fantasy is aimed at ages 13 and up. Corinne Wells and Ada Navarra are best friends in Boston, just before Prohibition. ...Read Review
Secrets of the Terra Cotta Soldier
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A Chinese officer serving in 200 B.C.E. under Emperor Chu’u yearns for battle, but has long been assigned only to “boring” ...Read Review
The Cure for Dreaming
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Cat Winters’ The Cure for Dreaming, set in 1900, tells the story of Olivia Mead, a delightful young girl who, on her 17th birthday, ...Read Review
In the Shadow of Blackbirds
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In 1918 San Diego, the population lives in fear: fear of the deadly Spanish influenza, and fear of the brutal war that is raging ...Read Review
A Soldier’s Secret
Genres:
AdventureBiographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Private Frank Thompson of the 2nd Michigan Volunteers is not your typical Civil War infantryman. He is also a battlefield nurse and writes ...Read Review
Shadow on the Mountain
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One of my favorite books as a child was Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (Dutton, 1942), about brave children resisting the Nazis in Norway ...Read Review
Anxious Hearts
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In 1755, newly married Gabriel and Evangeline are separated when British soldiers forcibly remove the Acadians from Canada. Evangeline is told that Gabriel is ...Read Review
Between Two Ends
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Yeats knows that something is deeply wrong with his father, William. He visits his grandmother’s spooky house and inadvertently reunites two pirate-shaped ...Read Review
Heart of a Samurai
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Son of a fisherman, 14-year-old Manjiro dreams of being a samurai. But after being rescued from a shipwreck by an American whaling vessel, ...Read Review
