Bloomsbury USA
Pao
The novel opens in Kingston, Jamaica in 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao arrives from China with his mother and brother. They…
The End of Sparta
In 371 B.C.E., the Theban general Epaminondas and his army of farmers defeated the Spartans against staggering odds at the…
Mornings in Jenin
The novel opens with the olive harvest of 1941 in the Palestinian village of Ein Hod. The pastoral idyll is…
David
In 1501 Gabriele, a country boy, arrives in Florence and is immediately robbed. He believes that his older ‘milk’ brother,…
In the Shadow of the Lamp
When Molly is framed for a crime she didn’t commit, she is forced to leave her housemaid position in London…
Dogtag Summer
Elizabeth Partridge’s Dogtag Summer tells the moving story of Tracy, or Tuyet, a Vietnamese-American girl adopted by a Vietnam veteran…
Ruso and the River of Darkness
The fourth novel in a series of historical mysteries set in the second century A.D., Caveat Emptor takes place in…
Cate of the Lost Colony
Editors' choice
When her father is killed fighting in the Netherlands, young Catherine Archer is left alone and penniless – until Queen…
The Mistress of Abha
Ivor Willoughby was a boy when the British military posted his father to Arabia, and for reasons that are revealed…
Lady Macbeth’s Daughter
In her third historical for teens, Lisa Klein offers a new take on Macbeth’s bloody rise to power through the…
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