Children/Young Adult
Wild Rover No More: A Bloody Jack Adventure
This is the twelfth and allegedly last volume of the adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, also known as Bloody Jack,…
Girl in the Blue Coat
Girl in the Blue Coat is a sensitively told coming-of-age story set in the Netherlands during the German occupation. Hanneke…
The Last Bolger
This is the third and last in Jinks’ series about the bogler, Mr. Bunce, and his apprentices, Birdie, Jem and…
Padraig Pearse and the Easter Rising 1916
Pádraig Pearse and the Easter Rising 1916 does not have an easy task. Its stated aim is not to be…
A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls
This is a deceptively titled anthology of unpublished short stories by notable authors of young adult fiction. Historical YA fiction…
The Next Together
This multi-layered book tells the story of Matthew and Katherine, doomed to meet, fall in love, and die tragically before…
Nancy Parker’s Diary of Detection
Editors' choice
London, 1920. Fourteen-year-old Nancy Parker leaves school and starts a Journal. She’s longing for real life to begin, preferably as…
Betrayed
In the second book in the Arnaud Legacy series, teenagers Phoebe, Miles, and Eleanor follow Phoebe’s family to Versailles, where…
Young Houdini: The Silent Assassin
Simon Nicholson continues his series based on the imagined youthful career of Harry Houdini, the famous escapologist. Harry, with his…
The Mystery of the Magna Carta
A talented artist, Denise Elaine Conquest Steele has produced a unique and entertaining book for young adults. Based around the…
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