Children/Young Adult

Friday the Arapaho Boy: A Story from History

By Marc Simmons - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultWestern

Simmons, New Mexico’s Historian Laureate, does a fine job with writing this children’s fictional history book. Ronald Kil provides colorfully detailed ...Read Review

Pandora of Athens: 399 B.C.

By Barry Denenberg - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The title character of Pandora of Athens: 399 B.C., Barry Denenberg’s latest contribution to Scholastic’s Life and Times series, is a ...Read Review

The Shadows of Ghadames

By Joёlle Stolz - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is a young adult coming-of-age story set at the end of the nineteenth century in the City of Ghadames, Libia. After eleven ...Read Review

North with de Anza

By Dorothy Ward Erskine - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is a treasure! Even though it was written over four decades ago, the story holds well and will engage readers of all ...Read Review

My Guardian Angel

By Sylvie Weil (trans. Gillian Rosner) - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

A refreshing change from the many middle grade novels featuring Jewish protagonists set during World War II, My Guardian Angel offers readers a ...Read Review

The Toughest Cowboy: Or How the Wild West was Tamed

By John Frank - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

  This is such a fun picture book illus. by Zachary Pullen. It’s a tall tale with lively and humorous text and ...Read Review

New Found Land : Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery

By Allan Wolf - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This fictional account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is told in multiple voices in a straightforward and entertaining lyrical form. Fourteen characters ...Read Review

Grape Thief

By Kristine L. Franklin - Published 2003

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

It is 1925 in the small town of Roslyn, Washington, and the Grape Train has come to town for its annual visit. We meet ...Read Review

Girl in a Cage

By Jane Yolen - By Robert J. Harris - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Set in the early 14th century, Girl in a Cage gives readers a glimpse of Scotland’s struggle for independence from England and ...Read Review

I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials

By Lisa Rowe Fraustino - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This young adult novel joins the many others in the Dear America series of fictional diaries set at pivotal points in US history. ...Read Review