A moving and haunting novel for readers of The Book ThiefFifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life--until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a ...
In the bleak winter of 19 0, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lindstrom's tiny Norwegian village and held it captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated—until Uncle Victor told Peter how the children could fool the enemy...
Search of the Moon King's Daughter
Linda HolemanIncluded in one of the 2004 YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults listsNominated for the White Pine Reading Program of the Durham District School BoardGentle Emmaline loves nothing more than books and flowers and her little broth...
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions...
Carolyn MeyerIn this latest installment of her acclaimed Young Royals series, Carolyn Meyer reveals the dizzying rise and horrific downfall of the last queen of France. From the moment she was betrothed to the dauphin of France at age fourteen,...
Orphaned as a young girl because of the imprudent marriage of her mother, Queen Katherine Parr, Mary Seymour vows never to fall in love-and under no circumstances will she marry. Lady Strange, her mysterious guardian, offers the young...
A School for Unusual Girls: A Stranje...
Kathleen BaldwinA School for Unusual Girls is the first captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventur...
The Lacemaker and the Princess
Kimberly Brubaker BradleyELEVEN-YEAR-OLD ISABELLE IS A LACEMAKER IN THE TOWN OF VERSAILLES. One day as she delivers lace to the palace, she is almost trampled by a crowd of courtiers -- only to be rescued by Marie Antoinette. Before Isabelle can believe it, ...
Some loves are not made to last . . . Like Romeo and Juliet, Heloise and Abelard were doomed from the start, and their romance was destined to pass into history. Yet when sixteen-year-old Callie Martin discovers a diary hidden within ...
The Mistletoe and Sword: A Story of R...
Anya SetonYoung Quintus Tullius, standard bearer with the Ninth Roman Legion serving in Britain, is ready to begin his quest for the bones of his great-grandfather who died 17 years before—bones that the Druids who haunt Stonehenge watch over...
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, author of Making Bombs for Hitler, explores the bonds of friendship and family against the perilous backdrop of war.\r\nIn the grip of World War II, Maria has realized that her Nazi-occupied Ukrainian town is ...
A gripping tale of one girl's struggle against the Nazis."Remember who you are, Milada." Milada's grandmother says these words on the night the Nazi soldiers come to their home in Czechoslovakia. But what do they mean? Sh...