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Rebel Heart

By Ally Sherrick - By David Dean (illus.) - Published 2025

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

A pacey adventure story set in the English Civil War, this novel both follows the paths of two young people forced to make ...Read Review

Naeli and the Secret Song

By Jasbinder Bilan - Published 2025

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultLiterary

Naeli Harwood is the daughter of two musicians living in Hyderabad, India, in the 1870s. Her Indian mother, Jemandee, is a highly regarded ...Read Review

The Great Phoenix of London

By Gordy Wright (illus.) - By Lindsay Galvin - Published 2024

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

Galvin’s extraordinary novel about the 1666 Great Fire of London, a boy and a phoenix, has all the hallmarks to become a children’...Read Review

Nush and the Stolen Emerald

By Jasbinder Bilan - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

Like the start of a Bond movie, the reader is swept into this story as Anushka races bare-back through the Indian desert dawn ...Read Review

The Undying of Obedience Wellrest

By Nicholas Bowling - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

In the spring of 1832, there is unrest in the graveyard tended by an ancient, sick sexton and his fifteen-year-old grandson, Ned. By day ...Read Review

Vita & the Gladiator

By Ally Sherrick - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime

It is not that long ago that young girls who loved history were hard-pressed to find a thrilling historical adventure story with an ...Read Review

Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies

By Alison Stegert - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Fourteen-year-old Winifred Weatherby is a brilliant inventor, just like her father. She really wants to win the Petit Prix at a science convention ...Read Review

The Wall Between Us

By Dan Smith - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

This novel begins with the sudden, shocking building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, an event that brings danger and terror for many, including ...Read Review

Call of the Titanic

By Gordy Wright (illus.) - By Lindsay Galvin - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical

It’s 1912, and Clara Scott is twelve years old.  She lives in New York and is fascinated by her cousin, Harold Cottam’s ...Read Review

Nisha’s War

By Dan Smith - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

March 1942, and Nisha Barrow and her mother are the only people to alight from the train at Bealmouth, Northumbria, UK. It’s dull, ...Read Review