Children/Young Adult

Penelope Bailey Takes The Stage

By Susanna Reich - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The back cover describes this novel, dauntingly, as being “about the struggle of 19th-century women for self-determination.” Fortunately, the book itself is much ...Read Review

The House of Windjammer

By V.A. Richardson - Published 2003 (US)Published 2004 (UK)

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Amsterdam 1636, at the height of tulipmania. The merchant-shipping family of Windjammer is facing ruin. Four galleons have been ship-wrecked and there is no ...Read Review

Yankee Girl

By Mary Ann Rodman - Published 2004 (US)Published 2005 (UK)

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Yankee Girl is about a young American girl, Alice, who has just moved to Mississippi from her home in Chicago. At the time ...Read Review

Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!

By Annette Curtis Klause - Published 2006

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Set in 1899, Freaks: Alive on the Inside tells the story of Abel Dandy. Born to an armless mother and a legless father, Abel’...Read Review

Dancing through Fire

By Kathryn Lasky - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The Opera Ballet is the center of Sylvie Bertrand’s world in this coming-of-age novel set in Paris during the politically tumultuous 1870s. ...Read Review

Karoo Boy

By Troy Blacklaws - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

Douglas Thomas is a white teenager in Cape Town, South Africa, in the late 1970s. He lives with his mother, father, and twin ...Read Review

Curse of the Blue Tattoo

By L. A. Meyer - Published 2005

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

In this second installment in the life of Mary “Bloody Jack” Faber, the wildly unconventional teenager embroils herself in another adventure, this time ...Read Review

Eyes of the Emperor

By Graham Salisbury - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitary

“…if they ever let us fight in this war, I will stand up and go to the end. They’re not going to ...Read Review

Honey Bea

By Kim L. Siegelson - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Beatrice is born a slave on the Rillieux sugar plantation in Louisiana. Her father has died trying to escape, and her mother, Ara, ...Read Review

Teddy’s Cattle Drive: A Story from History

By Marc Simmons - By Ronald Kil (illus.) - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

This is a wonderful book to add to a collection of Wild West tales. Historian Marc Simmons tells the story of Teddy Abbot, ...Read Review