Children/Young Adult
Biggles Learns to Fly
This novel was originally published in 1935, and Biggles is a very familiar name to me as he was my…
The Middle of Nowhere
Comity Pinny’s mother dies of a snake bite in the remote Australian outback where her father runs the telegraph station…
The Case of the Pistol-Packing Widows
Nevada Territory, U.S.A., 1862. In this, the third P. K. Pinkerton mystery, our hero, age 12, is hired by a…
Lizzy Bennet’s Diary
Lizzy Bennet’s Diary is a charming, illustrated re-imagining of Pride and Prejudice in diary form. This is not a fan-lit…
Secrets of the Realm
Blamed for her uncle’s death, fifteen-year-old Annie is on the run. Knowing the perils she will face on the streets…
Temple Boys
AD 33. Flea is the runt of the Temple Boys gang who thieve for a living in Jerusalem, a city…
When the Guns Fall Silent
Jack Loveless, veteran and war hero, takes his grandson to visit the allied cemeteries in Northern France, 50 years after…
Ravens of Solemano, or The Order of the Mysterious Men in Black
This second steampunk novel in the Young Inventors Guild trilogy takes place in 1903 and in many locations such as…
Prisoner 88
Leah Pileggi’s Prisoner 88 is a fictional account of the real-life imprisonment of ten-year-old Jake Oliver Evans in the Idaho…
Preacher’s Boy
Turn-of-the-20th-century Vermont is the setting for master storyteller Paterson’s (Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved) coming-of-age and father-and-son story,…
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