Posts Tagged ‘history’
Dragons of Silk
HarperCollins, 2011
Fiction
ISBN: 0060275189
352 pages
Synopsis
The Weaving Maid wove robes of silk for Heaven, but when she met the Cowboy, she abandoned her loom to be with him. But Heaven would not allow this, and put the Milky Way in between them.
Silk binds the lives of four girls from different generations with the fate of the Weaving Maid. Across a span of seventy-five years both in China and America, each girl shows the strength and courage of a dragon as she fights and sacrifices for the survival of her family and the pursuit of passion. …
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Elijah Of Buxton
Scholastic, 2007
Historical Fiction
ISBN: 0439023440
352 pages
Newbery Honor Book
Coretta Scott King Award Winner
Synopsis
Told from the 1st person perspective of a boy named Elijah about his life and hometown, Buxton, the narrative moves from chapter to chapter, giving Elijah’s point of view on various stories involving he and other characters. Just north of the border in Canada, Buxton is a community for runaway slaves set during the times of late American slavery and the Underground Railroad. …
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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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Many Waters
Square Fish, 1986
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0312368577
224 pages
Synopsis
One minute they’re playing hockey in the middle of freezing winter, and the next the twins Sandy and Dennys Murry are thrust through their parents’ experimental time travel machine and end up in the hot desert during the time of Noah. …
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Square Fish, 1978
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0312368569
224 pages
Synopsis
Now fifteen, the genius boy Charles Wallace Murry from A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door is taken on another unique adventure. A major threat to their world has emerged, and within 24 hours the deranged dictator will destroy everything with an onslaught of nuclear war. …
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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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