CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2000
"It is a pleasure to accompany Lizzy throughout this tale thrumming with mini-adventures and vivid characters. (author's note, bibliography) (Historical fiction. 12-14)"
Set in 1878, Rinaldi's latest work of historical fiction is at once enlightening and highly engrossing.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2004
"Even readers who don't know of Bonaparte will be caught up in the interplay between girl and emperor and the surrounding drama of the world's history—and their own. (Historical fiction. 10-14)"
The bare bones of this inventive historical fiction is the unique friendship between Napoleon Bonaparte and 14-year-old Betsy Balcome, whose English family lived on St.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2005
"An excellent introduction to a promising new series. (Historical fiction. 8-12)"
Maggie Rae and her cousins visit their grandmother's attic to find scraps of time, remembrances from her family's past.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Aug. 9, 2005
"As Reb tries to sustain a life, Pearsall brings a snapshot of history to life. (bibliography) (Historical fiction. 9-13)"
Humanity and justice don't always join hands as 13-year-old Rebecca Carver painfully discovers; especially when it's 1812 in a small frontier settlement and a young Chippewa Indian is being held captive for the crime of murdering a white trapper.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2006
"Jenny proves a resilient heroine and her story is jam-packed with the stuff of history. (historical note, historical facts, further reading and useful web sites) (Historical fiction. 8-12)"
A former slave with a yen for freedom becomes a pioneer girl in this historical chronicle inspired by experiences of an African-American woman who settled on Salt Spring Island in 1860.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 14, 2006
"Solid research and lively writing make this a fine historical novel, a perfect companion to Russell Freedman's Kids at Work (1994). (about Lewis Hine, the story behind the photograph, bibliography) (Historical fiction. 8-12)"
Twelve-year-old Grace is proud to be one of the best readers at school, but she's pulled out to be a doffer at the mill, her parents happy to have the extra money coming in.
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