Children/Young Adult

Finishing Becca

By Ann Rinaldi - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

One of the best features of this young adult novel is the fine descriptive contrast of poor and wealthy in its American Revolution ...Read Review

January 1905

By Katharine Boling - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The tales of pre-teen twin sisters Pauline and Arlene change off, chapter by chapter, in this novel geared for readers ten and older. ...Read Review

Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family

By Ann Rinaldi - Published 2003

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

This young adult novel is based on Patrick Henry’s family and set between 1771 and 1778. Rather than focusing on this founding father’s ...Read Review

The Truth About Sparrows

By Marian Hale - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Sadie’s life in Missouri suits her just fine, but the family cannot survive in the drought-plagued land. Daddy decides they will be ...Read Review

The Vanishing Point

By Louise Hawes - Published 2004

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

This fictionalized biography recounts a year in the life of Renaissance painter Lavinia Fontana. Teenager Vini is an only child, her mother having ...Read Review

A Ride into Morning: The Story of Tempe Wick

By Ann Rinaldi - Published 2003

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Rinaldi bases her story on the Morristown, New Jersey, legend of Tempe Wick. In the bitter winter of 1780-81, the Pennsylvania Line of ...Read Review

Black Horses for the King

By Anne McCaffrey - Published 2004

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

This new edition of McCaffrey’s foray into the Arthurian legend is the latest in Del Rey’s Imagine series for younger readers, ...Read Review

Betrayal at Cross Creek

By Kathleen Ernst - Published 2004

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

(1) Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro has come to North Carolina Colony from Scotland with her grandparents, Angus and Morag MacKinnon. Raised on tales of the ...Read Review

Milkweed

By Jerry Spinelli - Published 2003

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Newbery-winning author Jerry Spinelli weaves us a powerful tale of an eight-year old orphan in 1939 Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Some call him Jew. Some call ...Read Review

Meadow Lark

By Mary Peace Finley - Published 2003

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Leaving her home in Taos, Mexico, to join a wagon train in search of her brother, Meadow Lark’s resourceful 1845 heroine is thirteen-year-old ...Read Review