 |
|
 |
|
The United States
has just entered World War II. Young men are enlisting and being
drafted every day. There is an air of patriotism and of doing
something for one's country. It permeates everything from talk
on the street to jingles on the radio.
The Playmaker
What has he done to deserve this treatment? Where can he go? With his mother dead and a father he never knew, there is no place for him in the country. But Richard also does not wish to die by staying in London. Is there some place he could hide? In disguise right in plain sight, Richard stays in London determined to find out why he has been attacked and threatened. In My Enemy's House
Fever 1793 In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about erserverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. The Winter Hire
|
 |
In The Midwife's Apprentice, you meet a 12-year-old girl who is trying to keep herself warm by sleeping in a dung heap. She has no family, no friends, no home, and not even a real name. She is usually called Brat. Therefore, there is no family to provide a dowry for marriage, and no one to make plans to apprentice the girl to learn a trade. She just moves from town to town begging barely enough food to keep her alive. And then one morning after spending the night in a warm, rotting, dung heap, an important looking woman tries to shoo Brat out of the village. But the girl, asking for some food, says she can work for the woman in return for the food. And that is how the girl becomes the midwife's apprentice. There are many changes in the Brat's life after taking on the job of the midwife's apprentice and eventually she overcomes the challenges in her path.
Sometimes survival means facing the prejudices of a community. Sixteen-year-old Marnie is shunned and treated like an outsider in her new village. She befriends Raven, the village mad boy, who she realizes is not really mad but deaf. She invents hand signs like man, woman, tree, candle, rabbit, dog, eat . . . signs that help her communicate with Raven. The villagers believe that Marnie has bewitched Raven with her magic signs in the air. Marnie is accused of witchcraft and must stand trial. Can Marnie survive the ordeal of a witch trial? Can the homeless Raven survive with the help of Marnie's hand signs?
The United States
has just entered World War II. Young men are enlisting and being
drafted every day. There is an air of patriotism and of doing
something for one's country. It permeates everything from talk
on the street to jingles on the radio. Mary, Bloody Mary
After all
she wished my death long before the executioner's sword glittered
above her neck. she beguiled my father. King
Henry, and turned him into someone I did not know. Because of
this evil that called herself a queen, I have lost everything:
my rightful place at court, my mother's loving presence, my father's
devoted affection. Month after month, I have lived in terror of
poison being slipped into my cup. I can forgive her nothing. You
think me cruel. well before you judge me hear my story."
This is the voice of Princess Mary, destined to become queen and
one of England's most hated monarchs. Hear her story, and decide
for yourself. 
Sacajawea, a shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, and William Clark alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and clark Expedition to the Northwest.
Another Shore |
 |
|
|
The
year is 1597. Richard Malory, a fourteen-year-old boy, journeys
to London from the country. He is greeted by the severed heads
of Catholic insurgents impaled on the Tower gates, people reacting
very strangely when they hear Richard's last name, an aunt who
claims to have no knowledge about Richard's father whom he has
never met, and a gang of thieves who rob, beat, and threatened
Richard at knifepoint to leave London immediately. 
During
World War II and the Holocaust, where do you think would be the
best place for a Jewish girl to hide from the Germans? Probably
not in the house of a high-ranking official in the Nazi Party,
right? But that is just where the blond-haired, blue-eyed Marisa
lives throughout most of World War II, right under the noses of
the very people who are trying to exterminate her people.
by
Laurie Halse Anderson
How
many times have you asked your parents not to embarrass you by
calling you by your nickname in front of your friends? Well, William
Belet thinks that he has a chance to escape his nursery name.
Little Rabbit, when he goes off to become a page in his uncle's
household. Unfortunately for Will, his uncle covets Will's family
castle and land holdings and will stop at nothing to get them,
not even murder. Will's father, aware of the danger his son is in, makes arrangements
for a trusted knight, Ranulf d'Artois, to assist in the training
of all the pages, thereby allowing him to keep on eye on Will.
It is Ranulf everyone laugh and call him Little rabbit is the
least of Will's problems as war tears England apart during
during the twelfth century, and Will gets his first taste of battle and treachery.
- - - Laura
"Anne
was a witch. She had a birthmark to prove it and so she deserved
to die.  |
  
   
 |