Carolyn Meyer
Victoria Rebels
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Princess Victoria will be Queen of England sometime in the future. Everything about her life is under constant examination and comment from those ...Read Review
The Wild Queen
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The Wild Queen is Carolyn Meyer’s latest entry in her Young Royals series, and it’s truly a uniquely fictionalized account of ...Read Review
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultWestern
Nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker’s family had been settled in Texas for two years when their home was raided by Comanche Indians. She ...Read Review
Cleopatra Confesses
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Born in the 1st century B.C., Cleopatra was the favorite of her father, the pharaoh of Egypt, who bypassed his older daughters ...Read Review
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Despite its gimmicky-sounding subtitle, The Bad Queen is a straightforward tale of Marie Antoinette from the time shortly before her marriage to the ...Read Review
The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The book is very much a record of Charles Darwin’s youth from the time he is a nine-year-old going off to boarding ...Read Review
In Mozart’s Shadow
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
You’ll see them in early depictions of “The Mozart Family.” There they are, sister and brother, hands crossed as they perform some ...Read Review
Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine De’Medici
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Carolyn Meyer’s “Young Royals” series offers its readers the opportunity to both learn and be entertained by history’s most fascinating personages. ...Read Review
Loving Will Shakespeare
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Just before the plague returns to England, seven-year-old Agnes (Anne) Hathaway and her family are invited to a christening by friends: John and ...Read Review
Marie, Dancing
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Every time I visit the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, I visit Degas’ Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen. It’s ...Read Review