A Rebel's Daughter: The 1837 Rebellion Diary of Arabella Stevenson
8 best books like A Rebel's Daughter: The 1837 Rebellion Diary of Arabella Stevenson (Janet Lunn): Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743, Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490, Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136, Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595, Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941, Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, Mates, Dates, and Diamond Destiny
| Author | Kristiana Gregory |
| ISBN | 0439253853 |
Scholastic is proud to present the final installment of The Royal Diaries series. Drama and intrigue explode in the story of young Princess Catherine's incredible journey to greatness.
Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange...
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
| Author | Edwidge Danticat |
| ISBN | 0439499062 |
With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered...
| Author | Kristiana Gregory |
| ISBN | 0439164842 |
Author of the best-selling Royal Diaries title, CLEOPATRA VII, Kristiana Gregory now takes readers to twelfth-century France and introduces Eleanor of Aquitaine, who becomes queen at age 15.
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine lives in a castle in Poitier, France, with her father...
Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595
| Author | Sheri Holman |
| ISBN | 0439165865 |
In the late seventh century, the land that we now call Korea was embroiled with political and religious conflicts. Three kingdoms (Silla, Koguryo, and Paekche) fought for supremacy, and three faiths (Shamanism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) battled for dominance. Princess Sondok, the eldest daughter...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439194040 |
I read these books when I was little, so I have a very childish adoration for them. However, reading them now I am irritated with the historical inaccuracies since they help perpetuate the lack of knowledge having to do with history in general. MQoS is a very complex figure given a very anglo personality,...
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0590687158 |
In a diary that brings to life the dramatic happenings on the home front during World War II, Madeline Beck is living in a boardinghouse with her mother while her father is on an aircraft carrier guarding the Pacific Coast. After discovering that a German U-boat has landed near her home--a little-known,...
| Author | Kristiana Gregory |
| ISBN | 0590226517 |
Now that we're in the North Platte River Valley the air feels dry and thin. My lips are so chapped they bleed when I talk. The only thing to do is dip our fingers in to the bucket of axle grease and rub our lips every hour or so. It smells bad, it tastes bad, and the blowing dust sticks.
It feels like we...
Mates, Dates, and Diamond Destiny
| Author | Cathy Hopkins |
| ISBN | 0689876971 |
“That William Lewis really thinks a lot of himself,” I said. ”He’s such a smartarse.”
“Hhmm,” said Lucy, grinning. “That’s what he said about you too.”
“He did? What a cheek! God, he annoys me. I really hate him.”
Lucy, TJ, and Izzie exchanged knowing...
