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The Mark of Edain

By Pauline Chandler - Published 2008

Genres:

History for animal lovers. Aoife, the niece of Caradoc the chieftain leading the struggle against the Romans in Britain, is captured in a ...Read Review

No Turning Back

By K.M. Peyton - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the second in KM Peyton’s Roman pony story series featuring Minna, the daughter of the blacksmith at the Roman fort ...Read Review

Troublesome Thomas

By Jenny Sullivan - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

South Wales. 1645. Ten-year-old Thomas Mansell is in disgrace and he is sent away to stay with his uncle and aunt and his two ...Read Review

Minna’s Quest

By K.M. Peyton - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

K.M. Peyton is a prolific writer of pony stories and this is a pony story for a mature teenage girl—with the ...Read Review

In the Heroic Age of Basil ll : Emperor of Byzantium

By Penelope Delta (trans. Ruth Bobick) - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult

Set at the end of the 10th century and the beginning of the 11th, this story is about two young men during ...Read Review

I Am the Great Horse

By Katherine Roberts - Published 2006 Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the story of Alexander the Great as told by his warhorse, Bucephalus. It is also the story of Bucephalus’s devoted ...Read Review

The Witches’ Mark

By Donald Lightwood - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

A fishing village in Fife at the time of Charles II. Pheemie is an old, lonely, deformed woman who lives in a little ...Read Review

The Lady Grace Mysteries : Feud

By Patricia Finney - Published 2005 Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Mystery/Crime

This is another from the fictional diaries of Lady Grace Cavendish, Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth and secret Lady Pursuivant. Carmina, ...Read Review