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Charley Skedaddle
Par Patricia Beatty. 1987
A Civil War story evolving around the maturing of twelve-year-old Charley Quinn. Charley is one of the youngest and toughest…
Bowery Boys in New York. He enlists as a drummer boy in the Union Army to see action and avenge his brother's death--only to run away terrified when battle comes. For grades 4-7 and older readersDoctor Zhivago
Par Boris Pasternak. 1958
The story of a Russian physician and poet during the early decades of the twentieth century. Yurii Zhivago, an individualist…
and something of an outsider, is separated from his wife by the Bolsheviks and falls in love with Lara, the wife of another man. Pasternak's portrait of Russian life during the post-revolution years includes an epilogue expressing hope for liberation and freedom in the futureHeirs of the motherland
Par Judith Pella. 1993
Russia, 1890s. War is on the horizon as Count Dmitri Remizov returns from eighteen years in exile to claim his…
daughter Mariana, raised by his wife Katrina's relatives--Sergei and Anna Fedorcenko. The Fedorcenkos and Count Dmitri and Mariana will have to call upon their faith to sustain them as they struggle to reunite their families during these tumultuous times. Sequel to Travail and Triumph (BR 9336)The moon below
Par Barbara Bickmore. 1990
Hallie Thomas has grown up in the coal-mining fields of England, but she hates it there and wants a better…
life somewhere else. Her chance comes when she receives a letter from an old friend, Chad Morgan, asking her to come to Australia to be his wife. But when she falls ill on board ship and is cared for by Dr. Tristan Faulkner, she falls passionately in love with him. Some violence and some explicit descriptions of sexPacific destiny
Par Dana Ross. 1994
In 1898 the Holts are affected by the battle over Cuba's freedom from Spain. Tim Holt leaves his new bride…
to report the action for his San Francisco newspaper, and Henry Blake escapes the anger of wife Cindy by going undercover for the army in Manila. Meanwhile, Frank Blake, last heard from in Yukon Justice (BR 09323), considers giving up his adventurous lifestyle. Strong language and some violenceGeorge, the drummer boy
Par Nathaniel Benchley. 1977
George, a drummer boy with the king's army, is stationed in Boston in the British colony of Massachusetts in 1775.…
Swept away on a secret mission, George witnesses the events in Lexington and Concord that helped to ignite the American Revolution. For grades 2-4Snow treasure
Par Marie McSwigan. 1958
The boys and girls of a Norwegian village on the sea risk their lives to help smuggle a fortune in…
gold past the Nazi soldiers guarding their town. For grades 4-7Spy for the night riders
Par Dave Jackson. 1992
1520. Karl Schumacher, fifteen, has come to Wittenberg to further his studies. Martin Luther, one of the most famous professors…
in the Holy Roman Empire, takes in Schumacher as a servant and student. When Luther is condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as a heretic, one who does not believe the accepted truth about God or the church, Schumacher accompanies him to Worms, where Luther plans to defend his views. For grades 3-6 and older readersThe cross
Par Sigrid Undset. 1954
A historical novel set in fourteenth-century Norway, concerning Kristin's problems with her husband and children, her retirement to a convent,…
and the horrors of the Black Plague. Sequel to The Mistress of Husaby (BR 10086)The bridal wreath
Par Sigrid Undset. 1923
In this first volume of a trilogy set in medieval Norway, the winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize for literature…
tells of Kristin's girlhood and her love for Erlend Nikulausson, a young man of whom her father strongly disapproves. Prequel to The Mistress of Husaby (BR 10086)The mistress of Husaby
Par Sigrid Undset. 1952
Paper faces
Par Rachel Anderson. 1991
In the days after the end of World War II, young Dot worries about having to go through more changes.…
She and her mother, Gloria, have shuttled from one dingy London rooming house to another, Baby is in the hospital with pneumonia, and the father Dot can't even remember hasn't been released from the army yet. Then Dot finds comfort in a stay in the country, recuperating from her own poverty-induced illnesses. For grades 6-9Switching well
Par Peni Griffin. 1993
In this time-travel fantasy, two girls from different centuries inadvertently trade places. Sitting by an old well near her San…
Antonio home in 1891, twelve-year-old Ada wishes herself 1̧00 years into the future. Simultaneously, in 1991, Amber, another discontented twelve-year-old seated at the same well, wishes herself back in time when, she believes, life was easy. Both girls learn that each century has its problems. For grades 5-8The journal of Hildegard of Bingen: a novel
Par Barbara Lachman. 1993
Inspired by the writings of a twelfth-century mystic, the author creates a journal depicting a year in the life of…
the medieval German abbess. Lachman reveals Hildegard's concern for the secular and the spiritual world; and depicts her as a busy woman who established and ran an autonomous convent, composed liturgical music, wrote poetry, tended the sick, oversaw the illumination of manuscripts, and held her own against paternalistic clergyWings of the morning
Par Lori Wick. 1994
For twenty-three years, Victoria (Smokey) Simmons's life has been spent on board her father's ship the Aramis. Now he is…
dead and she is captain. Dallas Knight, captain of the Zephyr, often arrives at a port too late to pick up cargo because the Aramis has got there first. He will not be happy to find out that the Aramis's captain is a woman. Sequel to The Hawk and the Jewel (BR 09603)The travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Par Robert Taylor. 1958
In 1849 Dr. Sardius McPheeters decides to escape his debts and his genteel wife's disapproval by heading for California to…
strike it rich mining gold. Fourteen-year-old Jaimie is allowed a year off from school to accompany his father. But almost at once the hapless doctor must write to his wife that Jaimie is lost and possible dead. In fact, Jaimie is captured by murderers in the first of his many adventures. Some violence. Pulitzer Prize winnerSons
Par Pearl Buck. 1992
Sequel to The Good Earth (RC 37294/BR 9400). After Wang Lung's death, the land that he spent his lifetime acquiring…
is to be divided among his three sons. The story revolves mainly around the third son, a runaway who had become a powerful military officer, and the use he makes of his inheritanceThe hawk and the jewel
Par Lori Wick. 1993
Even though she is English, Shani is the most favored child in the household of Ahmad Khan. Thus she has…
trouble understanding how her beloved Ahmad can send her back to England. On the voyage, Captain Brandon Hawkesbury tells Sunny (her given name) about her family and about life in England. But Hawk cannot prepare her for the turmoil she soon faces. Prequel to Wings of the Morning (BR 09604)Dragonwings
Par Laurence Yep. 1975
Moon Shadow sails from China in 1903 to join his father in San Francisco's Chinatown. The father is obsessed with…
the dream of making a flying machine, and he and Moon Shadow endure poverty and ridicule to make the dream come true. For grades 6-9 and older readersThe waterworks
Par E. L Doctorow. 1994
Set in New York City just after the Civil War. Martin Pemberton is walking in the rain when he spots…
his father, whom he believed dead, passing in a horse-drawn omnibus. When young Pemberton, who writes for a newspaper, tries in vain to track the omnibus, he disappears. McIlvaine, his editor and the narrator of this tale, sets off to search for Pemberton and for answers to a growing set of mysterious circumstances. Bestseller