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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
Magic Tree House: A Wild West Ride
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1880s: the American Wild West. In their tenth adventure, Jack and Annie find themselves in Rattlesnake Flats, once a prosperous town on the ...Read Review
Alligator Bayou
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Alligator Bayou recounts an overlooked but disturbing episode of American history: the persecution and lynching of Italians immigrants. Calogero arrives from Sicily at ...Read Review
A Nest of Vipers
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
London, 1712. Mother Hopkins is the fearsome matriarch of a young criminal gang based in the Nest of Vipers pub. There is Sam, a ...Read Review
Newes from the Dead
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
1650. This is based on the true story of Anne Green, a young, naïve maidservant who is taken in by a young gentleman, ...Read Review
Blown Away
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Midway along the Florida Keys lies the island village of Islamorada. The original community was present in the early 1900s, but as described ...Read Review
After the Train
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In the summer of 1955, thirteen-year-old Peter Liebig is excited about helping his father, an architect, rebuild the bombed-out church in Rolfen, West Germany, ...Read Review
Out of the Shadows
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As Catholics in the time of Protestant Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Dyer and her family are shunned and suffer for their religion while ...Read Review
No Turning Back
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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
Wild Orchid
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In this retelling of “The Ballad of Mulan” for the young adult reader, told in the first person, Cameron Dokey breathes fresh life ...Read Review
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
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This is a story that’s easy to lose yourself in. It alternates between the early 1990s, when Connie Goodwin is working on ...Read Review
