Betrayal
10 best books like Betrayal (Grace Cavendish): Spindle's End, Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490, Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858, Lady of Palenque : Flower of Bacal, Mesoamerica, A.D. 749, Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595, Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544, Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829, Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, Someone Named Eva, The Splendor Before the Dark
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0441008658 |
Spindle's End (a retelling of Sleeping Beauty) is odd in a lot of respects, and therefore a lot of people aren't going to like it. To outline these:
1. Most of the book is narration. There is very little in the way of dialogue, even when it comes to things that most other authors would have left for...
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...
Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439164850 |
As a princess of Japan in the year 1858, twelve-year-old Kazunomiya lives a life of privilege and luxury. But it is one in which she is a virtual prisoner, kept sheltered behind palace walls, only able to leave for the occasional visit to a temple or shrine. But her predictable life is changing. Japan has...
| Author | Anna Kirwan |
| ISBN | 0439409713 |
Anna Kirwan, best-selling author of THE ROYAL DIARIES: VICTORIA, MAY BLOSSOM OF BRITANNIA, offers a riveting look at Mayan culture, A.D. 749, through the eyes of Princess Green Jay, Lady of Palenque.
A political marriage is arranged between the thirty-three-year-old king of Xukpip and...
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...
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0590684841 |
This was a reread for me. I believe I originally read this book sometime during middle school and I remembered that I really liked it. I read a bunch of the Dear America and Royal Diaries books but I would always get them from my school library. Now I’m going to try to buy the ones I liked so I can relive my childhood....
Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829
| Author | Anna Kirwan |
| ISBN | 0439215986 |
In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess, in a title which includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.
29 MAY
...I had to kiss His Majesty's hand....
| 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 | Joan M. Wolf |
| ISBN | 0618535799 |
Don't blink or you'll miss it. The arrival of a noteworthy work of historical fiction for kids tends to work one of two ways. Either the marketing machine behind the book hits bookstores and libraries full-force, cramming said book down everyone's throats until they yield and make it a bestseller/award...
The Splendor Before the Dark
| Author | Margaret George |
| ISBN | 0399584617 |
Ascending to the throne was only the beginning... Now Margaret George, the author of The Confessions of Young Nero, weaves a web of politics and passion, as ancient Rome's most infamous emperor cements his place in history.
With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side, Nero Augustus...
