Children/Young Adult

Madame Tussaud’s Apprentice

By Kathleen Benner Duble - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Shortly before the Reign of Terror breaks out during the French Revolution, Celie Rousseau loses her family to hunger. She is saved on ...Read Review

Ghost Soldier

By Theresa Breslin - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Rob and Millie’s soldier father is missing in action after the battle of the Somme, and their mother is finding it hard ...Read Review

The Only Thing to Fear

By Caroline Tung Richmond - Published 2014

Genres:

Alternate HistoryChildren/Young Adult

Eighty years have passed since the end of WWII. In this alternate history, the Nazis developed genetic superpowers, “anomalies”, before the United States ...Read Review

True Stories from World War I

By Peter Hepplewhite - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitaryShort Stories

The Great War has always been an emotive subject, and it’s a difficult task to portray it with both frankness and delicacy ...Read Review

Boneseeker: From the Journals of Arabella Holmes and Henry Watson

By Brynn Chapman - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Arabella Holmes and Henry Watson (the children of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively) are in Philadelphia working at the Mutter Museum, studying ...Read Review

A Soldier’s Friend

By Megan Rix - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1914. The First World War has begun and it will affect, not only men, women and children, but also animals, particularly cats and dogs. ...Read Review

Willow

By Tonya Cherie Hegamin - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Willow is a riveting coming-of-age story from award-winning author Tonya Cherie Hegamin (Most Loved in All the World). Set in 1848 on the Pennsylvania-Maryland ...Read Review

Valentine Joe

By Rebecca Stevens - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

A time-slip novel featuring a modern teenager and events from the First World War published that such a war ‘must never happen again.’ ...Read Review

Zeraffa Giraffa

By Dianna Hofmeyr - By Jane Ray (illus.) - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1824, the Pasha of Egypt sent King Charles X of France a present of a giraffe. She was captured on the plains of ...Read Review

Arctic Storm

By Joanne Sundell - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

In Siberia, 1908, Anya, a young Chukchi shaman, is traded to a Russian along with a team of huskies bound for Nome. Through the ...Read Review