Children/Young Adult

Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam

By Cynthia Kadohata - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultMilitary

Cracker, a failed show dog, can no longer live with the family of her eleven-year-old master, Willie. Desperate to keep her alive, Willie ...Read Review

The Last Girls of Pompeii

By Kathryn Lasky - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The Last Girls of Pompeii is set, as the title implies, in 79 AD, during the final days of the ill-fated Roman city. Julia ...Read Review

The Sirens of Surrentum

By Caroline Lawrence - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

AD 80. Italy. In this, Lawrence’s eleventh Roman Mystery, Flavia, Nubia, Jonathan and Lupus, are invited to the Villa Limona on the Bay ...Read Review

The Silver Cup

By Constance Leeds - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Anna lives in a small village between Speyer and Worms along the Rhine, and the time is 1095-96. Anna’s father is a ...Read Review

Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs

By Mary E. Lyons - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Having reworked the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs (escaped slave turned abolitionist and once as famous as Frederick Douglass) in Letters From a Slave ...Read Review

Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs

By Mary E. Lyons - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Through compelling letters to relatives and friends, Mary Lyons tells the story of Harriet Jacobs, a slave girl in the early 1800s. Harriet ...Read Review

Come Juneteenth

By Ann Rinaldi - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Juneteenth is an official holiday in a number of U.S. states, commemorating the June 19, 1865, announcement in Texas that slavery had been abolished. ...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

Haym Salomon: American Patriot

By Susan Goldman Rubin - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Susan Goldman Rubin does it again. The author of favorites The Cat With The Yellow Star and Fireflies in the Dark, among other ...Read Review

House of Secrets

By Jennie Walters - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultSaga

This is the first book in a trilogy about the lives of servants and masters at a great house, Swallowcliffe Hall, from Victorian ...Read Review