Archive for the ‘History/Period’ Category
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Candlewick Press, 2007
Historical Fiction – Play
ISBN: 0763615781
96 pages
Newbery Award Winner
Synopsis
Originally written to be performed by the students at the school in which she is a librarian, Schlitz has created a series of 22 short monologues that give light to the life of average children living in a medieval village in England during the 11th century, from the rich lord’s daughter to the half-wit, the doctor’s son to the runaway. …
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An Acceptable Time
Square Fish, 1989
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0312368585
224 pages
Synopsis
Polly O’Keefe visits her grandparents’ farm in Connecticut, a familiar area for from previous books, to receive private tutoring. While exploring the outlying areas of the farm, Polly travels back 3000 years to that very spot, referred to as a time spiral. …
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The Wednesday Wars
Clarion Books, 2007
Historical Fiction
ISBN: 0618724834
< 272 pages
Newbery Honor Book
Synopsis
Holling Hoodhood is a normal 7th grader, just trying to get by and emerge from middle school as unscathed as possible. However, his new teacher Mrs. Baker has made this a bit difficult for him. …
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East
Harcourt, 2003
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0152045635
494 pages
Synopsis
Rose has grown up in the north and that’s all she’s known her whole life. Her family is struggling, and it gets harder every year. The youngest of a large family, she always seems to have a wandering heart that can’t be tamed. …
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Midnight Magic
Scholastic, 1999
Historical Fiction
ISBN-10: 0439242193
247 pages
Synopsis
During a time and place when card tricks and slights of hand were perceived as witchcraft, an outcast magician named Mangus is summoned by the king to help him unveil the mystery of his daughter who claims to be seeing ghosts. He and his servant Fabrizio find themselves wrapped up in a much larger and dangerous mystery that involves murder and a plot to overthrow the king. …
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