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Under the blood-red sun
Par Graham Salisbury. 1994
Tomi is a thirteen-year-old living in Honolulu in 1941. His parents and grandfather are Japanese immigrants, and his best friend,…
Billy, is white, a haole. Much to Tomi's dismay, his grandfather persists in calling himself Japanese and even flying Japan's flag. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, soldiers accuse Tomi's family of being spies. Even Billy begins treating Tomi differently. Some strong language and some violence. For grades 5-8A place to belong
Par Emily Crofford. 1994
When the bank forecloses on his tobacco farm in Wild Hog Holler in Tennessee, Talmadge McLinn's father decides to move…
his family out of state. They eventually end up on a plantation in Arkansas. Although Talmadge's accent, clothes, and misshapen foot draw teasing from his new classmates, he secretly hopes that the family can make this their home. For grades 5-8Murder in the Place of Anubis
Par Lynda Robinson. 1994
Set in ancient Egypt during the reign of fourteen-year-old Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Meren, young also but mature enough to serve as…
counselor to the king, finds it his duty to learn the truth about a scribe whose body is found in the sacred Place of Anubis with an embalming knife protruding from the neck. Meren is torn between loyalty to the king, respect for the embalming priests, and suspicion of those who would take advantage of the youthful pharaohThe commodore
Par Patrick O'Brian. 1994
As in sixteen previous tales in this series, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin occupy center stage. Upon their return to…
England, the seafaring duo face several domestic adjustments. Just as life on land becomes very interesting, Captain Aubrey is ordered to Africa. But the Napoleonic Wars are not over, so another, secret order redirects the commodore to Ireland to intercept the French. Some strong languageNow face to face
Par Karleen Koen. 1995
1721. Financially ruined by her late husband's involvement in a scandal, Barbara Devane, twenty, flees to Virginia to grow tobacco…
on her grandmother's plantation. Meanwhile, George I and James III battle for control of the British crown. When a more mature Barbara returns to England, she becomes caught up in the Jacobite plots. Sequel to Through a Glass Darkly (RC 23921, BR 6696). Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. BestsellerAunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the sky
Par Faith Ringgold. 1992
In this companion to Tar Beach (BR 8940), Cassie Louise Lightfoot and her little brother, Be Be, are flying among…
the stars when they come across a ramshackle train. To Cassie's horror, Be Be boards the train. Then Cassie meets Harriet Tubman, who explains that Be Be will experience what their great-great-grandparents did while escaping slavery by the underground railroad. For grades 2-4Bertie & the crime of passion
Par Peter Lovesey. 1995
Paris, 1891. Bertie, prince of Wales, has just arrived in Paris when Sarah Bernhardt informs him that the intended son-in-law…
of his good friend Jules d'Agincourt has been murdered. Bertie enlists Sarah's help, and they are soon off to the Moulin Rouge, where the murder occurredCharley 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 5-8