Carolyn Meyer

Victoria Rebels

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2013

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2012

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 1992

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2011

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2010

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2009

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2008

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2007

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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