Children/Young Adult

The Death of King Tsongor

By Laurent Gaudé - By trans. David Herman - Published 2003

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

This story of bizarre family relations purports to be set in an African kingdom, but the story reads more like medieval myth. King ...Read Review

The Snow Queen

By Eileen Kernaghan - Published 2003

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

Elements from the Finnish epic Kalevala and Saami shamanism combine with Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale in this charming novel by Canadian ...Read Review

Fire in the Rock

By Joe Martin - Published 2003

Genres:

Children/Young AdultInspirational

It is 1956 in this coming-of-age story, and Bo Fisher, a white preacher’s kid, begins an idyllic summer with his best friend Pollo, ...Read Review

The Cobra and the Lily

By Sheri Cobb South - Published 2002

Genres:

Children/Young AdultRomance

The Cobra and the Lily takes the reader to ancient Egypt just prior to the Biblical Exodus of the Hebrews led by Moses. ...Read Review

Heart of a Lion

By Glbert Morris - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultSaga

Prolific writer Gilbert Morris (House of Winslow series and more) has turned his talents to chronicling the multigenerational saga of Jesus Christ’s ...Read Review

Forgotten Fire

By Adam Bagdasarian - Published 2001

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Vahan Kenderian was 12 when the Ottoman Turks sought to exterminate the Armenians in 1915. Comforts of his family’s upper class life in Bitlis, ...Read Review

The Curse Of Treasure Island

By Francis Bryan - Published 2002

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

When I was a boy growing up, there were two books that kids were assumed to have read: one was Tom Sawyer, and ...Read Review

Snow Island

By Katherine Towler - Published 2002

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Alice Daggett is sixteen years old in the summer before WWII. Unlike most young women her age, she lives on an isolated and ...Read Review

Troy

By Adele Geras - Published 2001

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Toward the conclusion of the Trojan War, two orphaned sisters, Xanthe and Marpessa, watch events transpire from within Troy. Very human teenage girls, ...Read Review

Lord of the Nutcracker Men

By Iain Lawrence - Published 2001

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Johnny loved to play with the nutcracker men his father had made–30 of them. They had been made by the “finest toymaker in ...Read Review