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Albahari, David. Gotz and Meyer. 168 p.
Two noncommissioned SS
officers, Gotz and Meyer, go about the task of
transporting--and gassing--over 5,000 men, women, and
children from a Belgrade concentration camp.
Alder, Elizabeth. King’s Shadow. 259 p.
After he is orphaned and has his tongue cut out
in a clash with the bullying sons of a Welsh noble, Evyn is
sold as a slave and serves many masters, from the gracious
Lady Swan Neck to the valiant Harold Godwinson, England's
last Saxon king.
Alexander, Robert. The Kitchen Boy. 229 p.
A historical novel in which Leonka, an old man
who served as a youth as kitchen boy in the Ipatiev House
where the tsar and tsarina, Nicholas and Alexandra, were
imprisoned, finally reveals what he saw, and what he did on
the night the Imperial Family was executed in 1918.
Alexander, Robert. Rasputin’s Daughter. 298 p.
Maria, the young, spirited daughter of Rasputin, spends her
father's final days trying to unlock the mystery of her
father's involvement in the disappearance of the Russian
Royal Family.
Anderson, M. T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing:
Traitor to the Nation. 351 p.
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle
the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from
birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a
science experiment in the years leading up to and during the
Revolutionary War.
Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten Fire. 272 p.
The story of how a boy who survived the Turkish
massacre of the Armenians in 1915.
Bennet, Holly. The Warrior’s Daughter. 222 p.
Berry, Steve. The Romanov Prophecy. 373 p.
With Russia on the brink of
bringing back the monarcy, Atlanta lawyer Miles Lord travels
to Moscow to perform a background check on the tsarist
candidate favored by a powerful group of Western
businessmen, but he becomes caught up in the mystery of what
really happened to the family of Russia's last tsar after
gunmen make an attempt on his life.
Blum, Jenna. Those Who Save Us. 482 p.
Trudy Swenson, haunted by her German heritage,
embarks upon a deeper investigation of her past and uncovers
secrets her mother has kept hidden for five decades.
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. For Freedom: The Story of a
French Spy. 181 p.
A novel based on the experiences of Suzanne
David Hall, who, as a teenager in Nazi-occupied France,
worked as a spy for the Fr. Resistance while training to be
an opera singer.
Breslin, Theresa. Remembrance. 296 p.
The destinies of two Scottish families, one of
shopkeepers and one of wealth and power, become entwined
through their involvement in World War I, social causes, and
love.
Chambers, Aidan. Postcards From No Man’s Land. 312
p.
Alternates between two
stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a
daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English
grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui
relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to
liberate Holland from its German occupation.
Charleworth, Monique. The Children’s War. 367 p.
Thirteen-year-old Ilse learns
to rely on herself for survival after her mother Lore,
terrified the Nazis will discover the girl is half-Jewish,
sends her to live with a relative in Morocco in 1939, while
in Germany, one of the privileged children Lore cares for in
her job as a nursemaid, confesses his growing discomfort
with his role in the Hitler Youth.
Chevalier, Tracy. Burning Bright.
311 p.
The Kellaway family, newly arrived in London in
1792 where father Thomas has been offered work by circus
entrepreneur Philip Astley, discovers they are neighbors to
famous printer, poet, and political radical William Blake,
who is inspired by the coming-of-age adventures of young Jem
Kellaway and his sister Maisie to writer one of his most
famous works.
Chevalier, Tracy. Falling Angels. 319 p.
The changing social climate
in England, spurred by the death of Queen Victoria in 1901,
is reflected in the lives of Maude Coleman and Lavinia
Waterhouse, two young girls of different classes who meet
and become fast friends while their families are visiting
adjoining funeral plots.
Chotjewitz, David. Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi;
a novel. 292 p.
In 1933, best friends Daniel
and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler
to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the
friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany,
is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's
reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.
Crichton, Michael. Eaters of the Dead. 266 p.
Ibn Fadlan sets out in A.D. 922 as an ambassador
from Bagdad to the King of Saqaliba, but before he arrives,
he meets Viking chieftain Buliwyf, and joins him on a
mission to Scandinavia where they must battle the monsters
threatening the land.
Crichton, Michael. Timeline. 489 p.
A group of scientists, having learned how to
travel through time, enter life in fourteenth-century feudal
France and threaten the history of the world.
Cross, Donna Wollfolk. Pope Joan: a Novel. 411 p.
When her older brother is killed, Joan, a
rebellious ninth-century woman, assumes his identity, enters
a monastery and becomes a great Christian scholar,
eventually attaining the throne of Pope.
Curry, Jane Louise. The Black Canary. 279 p.
As the child of two
musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music
until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in
his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where
his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might
serve him well.
Darnton, John. The Dawin Conspiracy. 303 p.
A fictionalized account of the life of Charles
Darwin that speculates about how he developed his theory of
evolution and what personal secrets he was hiding from the
world.
Dines, Carol. The Queen’s Soprano. 318 p.
Seventeen year-old Angelica
Voglia lives in seventeenth-century Rome and has the voice
of an angel, but because the pope forbids women to sing in
public, she must escape to Queen Christina's palace to
become a court singer.
Dowd, Siobhan. A Swift Pure Cry. 310 p.
Dowswell, Paul. Prison Ship: Adventures of a Young
Sailor. 314 p.
After being framed for cowardice in a sea battle,
thirteen-year-old Sam and his friend Richard are sent to
Australia, where they must fight for their lives in the
outback.
Dowswell, Paul. Powder Monkey: Adventures of a Young
Sailor. 276 p.
Thirteen-year-old Sam endures
harsh conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after being
pressed into service aboard the HMS Miranda during the
Napoleonic Wars.
Dugain, Marc. The Officer’s Ward. 136 p.
In the autumn of 1914, Adrien
Fournier, a lieutenant in the French Army, is the only
survivor after his unit is attacked by German soldiers, and
as he recovers from his disfiguring injuries, he begins to
wonder if it would have been better if he too had died.
Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose. 502 p.
Brother William turns detective in medieval
Italy when seven bizarre deaths take place in seven days and
nights.
Elliot, L. M. Under a War-Torn Sky. 277 p.
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's
Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond,
Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the
help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his
unit.
Eisner, Michael Alexander. The Crusader. 315 p.
Francisco de
Montcada, the young Spanish heir to a vast family fortune,
returns from the Crusades a gaunt shell of a man, rendered
speechless by the horrors he has witnessed. As his friend
Brother Lucas draws out his story, Francisco relates a
gripping tale of fierce battles, cruel betrayals, and
religious zealots.
Fast, Howard. Spartacus. 363 p.
Historical novel in which Spartacus, a man born
as a slave and trained as a gladiator, leads a slave revolt
in Rome in 71 B.C.
Flint, Eric. 1635: The Cannon Law. 420 p.
Friedman, D. Dina. Escaping into the Night. 199 p.
Thirteen-year-old Halina
Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the
forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews
trying to survive World War II.
Friesner, Esther. Nobody’s Princess. 305 p.
Frost, Helen. The Braid. 88 p.
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western
island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices
and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their
family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister
accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape
Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other
family on the small island of Mingulay.
Graber, Janet. Resistance. 138 p.
In German-occupied Normandy,
France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that her mother is
exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger
brother, to great danger by volunteering for more perilous
assignments in the resistance movement.
Gerras, Adele. Troy. 340 p.
The last weeks of the Trojan War find the women
sick of tending the wounded, men tired of fighting, and
bored gods and goddesses trying to find ways to stir things
up.
Glatshteyn, Yankev. Emil and Karl. 194 p.
In Vienna, Austria, in 1940,
two nine-year-old boys, one Jewish and one Aryan, are
classmates and best friends when events of the Nazi
occupation draw them even closer together as they fight to
survive and escape together.
Greif, Jean-Jacques. The Fighter. 206 p.
Moshe Wisniak, a poor Polish Jew, uses his physical strength
and cleverness to help him survive the horrors he is
subjected to in the concentration camps of World War II.
Harding, Georgina. The Solitude of Thomas Cave. 237
p.
Hartnett, Sonya. The Silver Donkey. 266 p.
In France during World War I, four French children learn
about honesty, loyalty, and courage from an English army
deserter who tells them a series of stories related to his
small, silver donkey charm.
Haugaard, Erik Christian. Chase Me, Catch Nobody.
209 p.
On a school trip to Germany in 1937 a
14-year-old Danish schoolboy becomes involved in the
activities of the anti-Nazi underground.
Havill, Juanita. Eyes Like Willy’s. 135 p.
While vacationing over the course of several
summers in Austria, French siblings Guy and Sarah Masson
become best friends with a German boy, until the outbreak of
World War I puts them on opposing sides.
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. 443 p.
A bombardier, based in Italy during World War
II, repeatedly tries to avoid flying bombing missions while
his colonel tries to get him killed by demanding that he fly
more and more missions.
Heneghan, James. The Grave. 242 p.
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child
in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is
transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in
the midst of the deadly potato famine.
Heuston, Kimberly Burton. Dante’s Daughter. 302 p.
In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the
daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and
home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a
place for herself in a world with limited options for women.
Hoffman, Mary. The Falconer’s Knot: A Story of Friars,
Flirtation and Foul Play. 297 p.
Holub, Josef. An Innocent Soldier. 231 p.
A sixteen-year-old farmhand
is tricked into fighting in the Napoleonic Wars by the
farmer for whom he works, who secretly substitutes him for
the farmer's own son.
Hughes, Dean. Soldier Boys. 162 p.
Two boys, one German and one American, are eager
to join their respective armies during World War II, and
their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.
Issacs, Anne. Torn Thread. 186 p.
In an attempt to save his
daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a
labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister
survive the war.
Jenoff, Pam. The Kommandant’s Girl. 395 p.
Johns, Rebecca. Icebergs. 297 p.
Walt Dunmore and Alister
Clark, the only members of a bomber crew to survive a plane
wreck in Newfoundland, must fight the brutal wilderness to
survive and return to their families.
Jordan, Sherryl. The Raging Quiet. 264 p.
Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a
newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of
witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not
crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him
through hand gestures.
Kellerman, Faye. Straight into Darkness. 413 p.
Homicide inspector Axel Berg
becomes entangled in a dangerous web of intrigue when he
sets out to investigate a series of murders in Munich that
has the citizenry--already unsettled by the rise of
Hitler--in a state of panic.
Knauss, Sibylle. Eva’s Cousin. 329 p.
Twenty-year-old Marlene spends the summer of
1944 visiting her cousin, Eva Braun, at Adolf Hitler's
mountain retreat, where she enjoys luxury and prestige,
learns her first lessons about sex, and finally comes
face-to-face with the evils this sheltered world represents.
Based on actual events.
Kolosov, Jacqueline. The Red Queen’s Daughter.
399 p.
Sixteen-year-old Mary Seymour, a white magician
in Queen Elizabeth's court, has vowed never to fall in love,
but her attraction to her darkly handsome cousin Edmund, a
black magician who seems to understand her better than
anyone, cannot be denied, and she finds her beliefs tested
when he becomes involved in a plot against the queen.
Lasky, Kathryn. Broken Song. 154 p.
In 1897, fifteen-year-old
Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of
playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby
sister after the rest of their family is murdered.
Lawlor, Laurie. Dead Reckoning: A Pirate Voyage with
Captain Drake. 254 p.
Emmet, a fifteen-year-old
orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails
from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the "Golden
Hind"--the ship of his cousin, explorer and pirate Francis
Drake--on its three-year circumnavigation of the world.
Lawlor, Laurie. The Two Loves of Will Shakespeare.
278 p.
After falling in love,
eighteen-year-old Will Shakespeare, a bored apprentice in
his father's glove business and often in trouble for various
misdeeds, vows to live an upstanding life and pursue his
passion for writing.
Lawrence, Caroline. The Thieves of Ostia. 146 p.
In Rome in the year 79 A.D., a group of children
from very different backgrounds work together to discover
who beheaded a pet dog -- and why.
Lawrence, Iain. B for Buster. 317 p.
Sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his
abusive parents, lies about his age in the spring of 1943 to
enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself
based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over
Germany.
Lawrence, Iain. The Cannibals. 230 p.
Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted
juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve
their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island,
forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and
cannibals.
Lawrence, Iain. The Convicts. 196 p.
His efforts to avenge his
father's unjust imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom Tin
into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he
is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia
where he has a surprise reunion.
Lawrence, Iain. Lord of the Nutcracker Men 212 p.
An English boy during World
War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his
toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the
front.
Levin, Ira. Boys From Brazil. 268 p.
After many years of
preparation, the former leaders of Nazi Germany are ready to
unleash a plot that will enable them to rule the world.
Levitin, Sonia. The Cure. 182 p.
A young boy living in 2407
collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg
in 1348 confronting the antisemitism that sweeps through
Europe during the Black Plague.
Lewin, Waldtraut. Freedom Beyond the Sea. 262 p.
To escape the Inquisition, Esther Marchadi, the
sixteen-year-old daughter of a murdered Jewish rabbi,
disguises herself as a boy and joins the crew of Christopher
Columbus's "Santa Maria."
Malone, Patrcia. The Legend of Lady Ilena. 232 p.
In sixth-century Great Britain, a
fifteen-year-old girl seeking knowledge of her lineage is
drawn into battle to defend the homeland she never knew,
aided by one of King Arthur's knights.
Matas, Carol. After the War. 115 p.
After being released from Buchenwald at the end
of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to
lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
McBride, James. Miracle at St. Anna. 271 p.
Four American soldiers seek refuge in the small
village of St. Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany during World War
II, never imagining how the events which take place there
will change their lives forever.
McMullan, Margaret. In My Mother’s House. 262 p.
Jenny, a Catholic convert
from Judaism, is prodded by her daughter Elizabeth to recall
her past in Austria in the years leading up to World War II
and to come to grips with the family's abandonment of its
Jewish identity.
Melnyk, Eugenie. My Darling Elia. 278 p.
Flea market vendors Liz
Cantrell and Cia Kushnir become involved in the search for a
woman who disappeared from her Kiev home during the German
occupation, when her husband, who has been looking for her
since 1941, finds a locket he gave her as a gift in a box of
jewelry.
Meyer, Carolyn. Beware, Princess Elizabeth. 211 p.
After the death of her
father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old
Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of
the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister
Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years
later.
Meyer, Carolyn. Duchessina: a novel of Catherine de’
Medici. 258 p.
Meyer, Carolyn. Loving Will Shakespeare. 265 p.
Anne Hathaway has always dreamed of leaving the
small cottage where she and her siblings live with their
critical stepmother, and when Will Shakespeare returns home
and begins showing a serious interest in her, Anne must
decide whether to follow her heart or play by the rules.
Meyer, Carolyn. Marie, Dancing. 252 p.
A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van
Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opera
ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous
sculpture, "The Little Dancer."
Meyer, Carolyn. Mary, Bloody, Mary. 222 p.
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of
England during the mid-sixteenth century, tells the story of
her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
Meyer, Carolyn. Patience, Princess Catherine. 198
p.
In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon
arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King
Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy
settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies
and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute
between the kingdoms of England and Spain.
Meyer, L. A. Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious
Adventures of Mary
“Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy.
294 p.
Reduced to begging and thievery in
the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises
herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship
set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
Meyer, L. A. In the Belly of the Blodhound: Being an
Account of a Particulary Peculiar
Adventure in the Life of Jacky
Faber.
515 p.
Mitchell, David. Black Swan Green.294 p.
A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood
follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason
Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest
village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982.
Morgan, Nicola. Fleshmarket. 208 p.
In nineteenth-century
Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery,
Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed
the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a
gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession
will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.
Morpurgo, Michael. Private Peaceful. 202 p.
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced
to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well,
although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to
his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and
himself.
Napoli,
Donna Jo. Breath. 260 p.
Elaborates on the tale of
"The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who
is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy
children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of
full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.
Napoli,
Donna Jo. Daughter in Venice. 274 p.
Frustrated with the restrictions her gender
imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as
a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the
streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must
confront the repercussions of her actions.
Napoli,
Donna Jo. Fire in the Hills. 215 p.
Upon returning to Italy, fourteen-year-old Roberto struggles
to survive, first on his own, then as a member of the
resistance, fighting against the Nazi occupiers while
yearning to reach home safely and for an end to the war.
Napoli,
Donna Jo. The King of Mulberry Street. 245 p.
Dom, a nine-year old stowaway from Naples,
Italy, arrives in New York and must learn to survive the
perils of street life in the big city.
Orlev, Uri. Run, Boy, Run. 186 p.
Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes
the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the
Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
Padilla, Ignacio. Shadow Without a Name. 192 p.
In 1916, on a train heading
to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Eastern Front, two men face
each other over a chess board in a game to the death.
Pausewang, Gudrun. Traitor. 216 p.
During the closing months of World War II, a
fifteen-year-old German girl must decide whether or not to
help an escaped Russian prisoner of war, despite the serious
consequences if she does so.
Peet, Mal. Tamar.422 p.
Perez-Reverte, Arturo. Captain Alatriste. 253 p.
In seventeenth-century
Madrid, freelancing swordsman Diego Alatriste, a captain
forced into retirement by an injury in the Flemish wars, is
hired to kill two mysterious Englishmen but, at the secret
request of one of his employers, only wounds them, unaware
that their survival will shape the future of his country and
of Europe.
Piercy, Marge. Gone to Soldiers. 770 p.
Interweaves the stories of
ten characters who wage memorable and passionate public and
private battles, as World War II casts them into their
ultimate dreams and nightmares.
Penman, Sharon Kay. Dragon’s Lair: a Medieval Mystery.
317 p.
Justin de Quincy, on
assignment for Dowager Queen Eleanor, sets off into the
wilds of Wales in 1193 in an attempt to recover a ransom
payment that has gone missing while enroute to the Holy
Roman Emperor who is holding Richard Lionheart in a German
dungeon--putting the throne of England at risk.
Pressfield, Steven. Gates of Fire. 442 p.
A young man chooses to join the Spartan army,
and just as he grows accustomed to his new way of life he is
forced to fight in the battle of Thermopylae where all of
his fellow soldiers are killed, and he is the only man left
to carry on the Spartan traditions.
Reiss, Johanna. The Journey Back. 212 p.
After spending three years hiding from the
Nazis, a Jewish family is reunited and begins the job of
rebuilding their country and family.
Renault, Mary. The Last of the Wine.442 p.
Alexias, a young Athenian
from a good family, meets Lysis, a youth who is under the
influence of Socrates, and they form a strong friendship
against a background of athletic games, famine, and civil
war.
Roberts, Judson. Viking Warrior: The Strongbow Saga.
360 p.
Roberts, Katherine. I am the Great Horse. 344 p.
The war horse Bucephalus recounts his adventures from
344-323 B.C. with Alexander the Great and his relationship
with a groom who has prophetic dreams.
Salisbury, Graham. Eyes of the Emperor. 229 p.
Following orders from the
United States Army, several young Japanese American men
train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
Schulman, Faye. A Partisan’s Memoir: a Woman of the
Holocaust. 224 p.
Scott, Joanna. Liberation: a
Novel. 262 p.
While balancing between life
and death, an elderly woman remembers the terrors she faced
during World War II, and the events that changed her life
after the liberation.
Slade, Arthur. Megiddo’s Shadow. 290 p.
After the death of his beloved older brother Hector in World
War I, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves the family farm in
Canada to enlist in Hector's battalion, where he attempts to
come to terms with what has happened.
Spinnelli, Jerry. Milkweed. 208 p.
A street child, known to himself only as
Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of
orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors
of the Nazi regime.
Stanton, Doug. In Harm’s Way. 339 p.
Tells the story of the "USS
Indianapolis," a battle cruiser torpedoed in the South
Pacific by a Japanese submarine shortly after delivering
parts of the atom bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima;
and discusses the struggles of sailors who survived the
blast to stay alive in the sea for nearly five days before
help arrived.
Steel, Danielle. Echoes. 324 p.
Amadea, the daughter of a Jewish mother and
French father, takes the vows of a Carmelite nun, but even
that cannot protect her when World War II erupts in Europe,
forcing her to take refuge with the French Resistance where
she meets British secret agent Rupert Montomery, who changes
her life in many ways.
Steel, Danielle. Granny Dan. 223 p.
When Danina Petroskova dies, her granddaughter
discovers a box that hold a pair of satin toe shoes, a gold
locket, and a stack of letters that reveal Danina's hidden
past – a Russian prima ballerina.
Torrey, Michele. Voyage of Midnight. 216 p.
In the early nineteenth century, when his sea-captain uncle
invites him to assist the ship's surgeon on his next voyage,
orphaned, fourteen-and-a-half-year-old Phillip, eager to be
with family, accepts only to find out that his uncle is a
slave trader.
Turnbull, Ann. Forged in the Fire. 312 p.
Turnbull, Ann. No Shame, No Fear. 293 p.
In England in 1662, a time of
religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor
country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a
wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.
Turow, Scott. Ordinary Heroes. 368 p.
Retired newspaperman Stewart
Dubinsky discovers a packet of his father's World War II
letters and papers that reveal a secret life his family
never knew of, including an fiancee and an involvement with
a former war spy.
Updale, Eleanor. Montmorency on the Rocks: Doctor,
Aristocrat, Murderer? 362 p.
In Victorian London, when
Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr.
Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become
involved in solving the mystery of the poisoning of a
village of Scottish children.
Updale, Eleanor. Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman.
232 p.
In Victorian London, after
his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the
knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific
lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to
create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughter-House-Five. 215 p.
A fourth-generation German-American is tortured
by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944, which
he witnessed while a prisoner or war.
Vreeland, Susan. The Passion of Artemisia. 315 p.
Eighteen-year-old Artemisia
Gentileschi, having ruined her reputation by making a public
accusation of rape against her art teacher, enters into an
arranged marriage in post-Renaissance Italy and moves with
her husband to Florence where her talent blossoms, bringing
fame and conflict into her life.
Wharton. A Midnight Clear.
Wiesel, Elie. The Time of the Uprooted. 300 p.
Gamaliel Friedman flees
Czechoslovakia in 1939 and goes into hiding; however, years
later he begins to reconcile his past when he is called upon
to help an elderly woman who may very well be the woman who
hid him from the Nazis.
Wolf, Joan M. Someone Named Eva. 200 p.
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in
1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond,
blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as
"proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all
the while she remembers her true name and history.
Yolen, Jane and Robert J. Harris. Girl in a Cage.
234 p.
As English armies invade Scotland in 1306,
eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly
crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by
England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on
public display.
Yolen, Jane and Robert J. Harris. Queen’s Own Fool: a
Novel of Mary Queen of
Scots.
390 p.
When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves
as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the
political and religious upheavals in both France and
Scotland. |
