Chronicle

Loving vs. Virginia

By Patricia Hruby Powell - By Shadra Strickland (illus.) - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Racial relations in the United States are fraught today, but segregation experienced by African Americans in the not-so-distant past was both harsh and ...Read Review

The Falconer

By Elizabeth May - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime

Set in 1844 Edinburgh, this is the story of Aileana Kameron, a young noblewoman whose life has been wrecked by rumors that she murdered ...Read Review

The Clockwork Scarab

By Colleen Gleeson - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

In an alternative 1889 London, where airships and steam-powered machines, vehicles, and devices are common, Mina Holmes, niece of Sherlock, and Evaline Stoker, sister ...Read Review

Nobody’s Secret

By Michaela MacColl - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

The young Emily Dickinson narrates this tale that takes place during her fifteenth year, in between her school terms. A handsome stranger, Mr. ...Read Review

Promise the Night

By Michaela MacColl - Published 2011

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Anyone who has ever read the gorgeous West with the Night by Beryl Markham may doubt the need for a young adult novel ...Read Review

Prisoners in the Palace

By Michaela MacColl - Published 2010

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

MacColl’s fictional romp through Kensington Palace takes place in the months before Victoria becomes Queen in 1837. When Liza Hastings, 17, a young woman ...Read Review

1906

By James Dalessandro - Published 2004

Genres:

AdventureMystery/Crime

Most Americans have heard of the Great San Francisco Earthquake. Some may even be able to pull the date out of the cobwebs ...Read Review