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Children's Historical Fiction: Middle Ages through Colonial America
The Middle Ages and Renaissance (400--1600 AD)
Adam of the road - Elizabeth Gray Vining and Robert Lawson
Publisher: Puffin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1987
ISBN-13: 9780140324648
ISBN-10: 014032464X
The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
Blood red horse - K. M. Grant
Publisher: Walker & Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780802789600
ISBN-10: 0802789609
With the knights of England headed to the Holy Land to fight King Richard's Crusade, Will and his trusty stead, Hosanna, leave behind Ellie to fight, but only time will tell if Will has what it takes to become a brave and noble knight.
Catherine, called Birdy - Karen Cushman
Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/23/1994
ISBN-13: 9780395681862
ISBN-10: 0395681863
During her fourteenth year, in the year 1290, Catherine keeps a diary in which she details her family's activities and conflicts, the life of their medieval English manor, and her own coming to maturity.
Crispin : the cross of lead (Crispin series; book 1) - Avi
Publisher: Hyperion Books For Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780786826476
ISBN-10: 0786826479
After being accused of a crime, thirteen-year-old Crispin becomes a wanted man and so must use a new identity and keep on the run in order to stay alive, in a suspenseful middle reader set in fourteenth-century England. Teacher's Guide available. 55,000 first printing.
Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village - Laura Amy Schlitz and Robert Byrd
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/10/2007
ISBN-13: 9780763615789
ISBN-10: 0763615781
Journey to an English village in 1255 where a cast of characters, from millers to maidens, are introduced through colorful portraits and personal stories, in an informative guide to the Medieval era. 80,000 first printing.
Feast of Fools - Bridget Crowley
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780689865121
ISBN-10: 0689865120
Brought to live at the choir school, John does his best to make his surroundings a home despite the harsh treatment he gets for being the new arrival, yet when his one true friend goes missing and a canon is murdered, John sees that he has to take the risk to find out the truth about what is going on.
The midwife's apprentice - Karen Cushman
Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/27/1995
ISBN-13: 9780395692295
ISBN-10: 0395692296
In a small village in medieval England, a young homeless girl acquires a home and a new career when she becomes the apprentice to a sharp-tempered midwife. By the author of Catherine, Called Birdy.
Parsifal's page - Gerald Morris
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/23/2004
ISBN-13: 9780618432370
ISBN-10: 061843237X
In medieval England, eleven-year-old Piers's dream comes true when he becomes page to Parsifal, a peasant whose quest for knighthood reveals important secrets about both of their families. Reprint.
The puppeteer's apprentice - D. Anne Love
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780689844249
ISBN-10: 0689844247
Taking her destiny into her own hands and escaping a life of drudgery, Mouse, a young orphan and scullery maid, decides to be a puppeteer's apprentice, but she soon discovers that the puppeteer is hiding some dark secrets that could destroy her dream, in a rousing medieval adventure.
Rowan Hood, outlaw girl of Sherwood Forest (Rowan Hood series; book 1) - Nancy Springer
Publisher: Philomel Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780399233685
ISBN-10: 0399233687
When her mother is murdered and she is left alone, Rowan sets off to Sherwood Forest to find her father, Robin Hood, and soon, with the help of Lionel and Ettarde the runaway princess, they are able to locate him just in time to help him out of a dangerous situation.
The Shakespeare stealer (sequel Shakespeare's scribe) - Gary L. Blackwood
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780525458630
ISBN-10: 0525458638
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
A single shard - Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/23/2001
ISBN-13: 9780395978276
ISBN-10: 0395978270
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. By the author of Seesaw Girl.
The trumpeter of Krakow - Eric Philbrook Kelly and Janina Domanska
Publisher: Aladdin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1992
ISBN-13: 9780689715716
ISBN-10: 0689715714
A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
Queen's own fool : a novel of Mary Queen of Scots - Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris
Publisher: Philomel Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780399233807
ISBN-10: 0399233806
An epic adventure about one of the most intriguing queens in history follows Nicola Ambruzzi, a poor court clown, who catches the eye of Queen Mary and becomes her confidante.
Colonial America (1620-- 1789)
A break with charity : a story about the Salem witch trials - Ann Rinaldi
Publisher: Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/11/2008
ISBN-13: 9781439517086
ISBN-10: 1439517088
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692. Reissue. 30,000 first printing.
The courage of Sarah Noble - Alice Dalgliesh and Leonard Weisgard
Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/30/1987
ISBN-13: 9780684188300
ISBN-10: 0684188309
Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
Guests - Michael Dorris
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/1994
ISBN-13: 9780786820368
ISBN-10: 0786820365
Moss and Trouble, an Algonquin boy and girl, struggle with the problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area during the time of the first Thanksgiving.
James Printer : a novel of rebellion - Paul Samuel Jacobs
Publisher: Scholastic
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780590975414
ISBN-10: 0590975412
Learning printing in 1674, Bartholomew Green is taught by James, a Nipmuck Indian and skilled printer, who must choose sides when war erupts.
The sacrifice - Kathleen Benner Duble
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/06/2005
ISBN-13: 9780689876509
ISBN-10: 0689876505
With the town of Salem in a state of panic over the idea of witches living amongst them, Abigail and her sister are suddenly arrested for being witches themselves, but when their trial date nears, their mother makes the ultimate sacrifice for them - forcing the two girls to make the decision to turn on their mother in order to save their own lives.
Saturnalia - Paul Fleischman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1990
ISBN-13: 9780060219130
ISBN-10: 0060219130
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
Worlds apart - Kathleen Karr
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/30/2005
ISBN-13: 9780761451952
ISBN-10: 0761451951
In 1670, soon after arriving in the Carolinas with a group of colonists from England, fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Sewee Indian, Asha-po, and learns some hard lessons about survival, slavery, and friendship.
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