These twin tales follow the raising of the King’s Standard at Nottingham Castle in 1642, through to 1646, when King Charles surrended to the Scottish army outside Newark. Set in Nottinghamshire, Uncivil War tells the story of five children caught in the conflict of the English Civil War. Tom, a stable boy; his sister Meg, a maidservant at Pierrepoint Hall; Nick, who never wanted to be a soldier; Jed, who did but later regrets it; and Alice, who is left to help run a refuge for victims. Seen thro...
Sir Cumference and the Off-The-Charts Dessert
by Cindy Neuschwander, Creator and Wayne Geehan
Ghost Walkers of Shadow Canyon (Billy Bob Boy Howdy)
by Stephen Craig
In a text that mirrors their language and thoughts, Marcia Sewall has masterfully recreated the coming of the pilgrims to the New World, and the daily flow of their days during the first years in the colony they called Plimoth. Aye, Governor Bradford calls us pilgrims. We are English and England was our home...But our lives were ruled by King James, and for many years it seemed as though our very hearts were in prison in England... September, 1620, our lives changed. We were seventy menfolk and...
Fearless Brothers (Blanket of Blood, #2)
by Damian Micheal Desordi
Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different
by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
Autumn Winifred Oliver, an eleven-year-old girl living in Cades Cove, Eastern Tennessee, during the Depression, watches her grandfather as he tries to persuade his neighbors to back the proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but when they discover that the government representative is lying to them, Gramps becomes even more resourceful. Includes author's note about the history of the park.
The Handkerchief Map is an epistolary novel set during WWII and told from the point of view of three different characters: Franz, a young Nazi soldier who is beginning to question the war; Helga, a Russian girl bent on joining the resistance; and Susanna, a Jewish woman who has been separated from her husband and children and imprisoned in a concentration camp. By a teenage author, this novel is poetic yet accessible, and highlights the common humanity we all share.
Stories of the Golden Age of Northumbria
by Mary Rawnsley, Anne Hogben, Wendy B. Scott, Gary Neal, Helen Minto, Hilary Graham, and Jean Curtis
Defeat of the Ghost Riders (Trailblazer Books, #23) (Trailblazer Books (Numbered), #23)
by Neta Jackson and Dave Jackson
A Trailblazer Book for middle-grade readers. Little Celeste Key is sent to Mary McLeod Bethune's school against her will, but soon finds herself enjoying what she's learning -- until the Ku-Klux Klan shows up!