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10 best books like Blue Flame (K.M. Grant): Vidalia in Paris, The Book of the Maidservant, Hazel, Rosemary for Remembrance, Down Sand Mountain, Evidence of Angels, So Punk Rock: And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother, The Revolution of Sabine, The Possibilities of Sainthood, The Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story

Vidalia in Paris
AuthorSasha Watson
ISBN0670010944
When Vidalia wins a scholarship to study art abroad for the summer, she can’t believe her good fortune. Paris is filled with surprises, including Julien, the nice bookstore clerk Vidalia should like as more than a friend, and Marco, the mysterious art dealer she can’t stay away from. By the time...
The Book of the Maidservant
AuthorRebecca Barnhouse
ISBN0375958568
Johanna is a servant girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna will accompany her on a pilgrimage to Rome, the suffering truly begins....
Hazel
AuthorJulie Hearn
ISBN0192792148
Loved it! Especially the first half, set in 1913 London. 13-year-old Hazel becomes very interested in the suffragettes, as well as in her classmate Gloria, I thought. Which ends in disaster and her being sent to her grandparents' sugar plantation in the Caribbean... the book here felt a bit bi-polar...
Rosemary for Remembrance
AuthorFelicity Pulman
ISBN0759320349
When Janna is saved from a wild boar by the villein Godric, she's not sure whether to kiss him or slap him. The last thing she needs is a beau. Janna wants the freedom to follow her dreams - and a marriage proposal isn't in her plans. But Janna's life is shattered when her mother Eadgyth, a healer, dies suddenly,...
Down Sand Mountain
AuthorSteve Watkins
ISBN0763638390
In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.

It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...
Evidence of Angels
AuthorSuza Scalora
ISBN0061243434
I don’t normally review non-fiction, but when emailed by Suza Scalora asking if I would like to review Evidence of Angels, I thought I would give it a go. As I have an idea for my own fictional story regarding angels, Evidence of Angels is classed as research.

This review is going to be a little...
So Punk Rock: And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother
AuthorMicol Ostow
ISBN0738714712
Despite his dreams of hipster rock glory, Ari Abramson's band, the Tribe, is more white bread than indie-cred. Made up of four suburban teens from a wealthy Jewish school, their Motley Crue is about as hardcore as SAT prep and scripture studies.

But after a one-song gig at a friend's Bar Mitzvah--a...
The Revolution of Sabine
AuthorBeth Ain
ISBN0763633968
In 1776 Paris, a feisty teenager defies her mother, her closest friend, and the aristocracy that rules her life in a compelling romantic novel of social intrigue.

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, daughter of aristocrats, thinks of nothing but donning exquisite ball gowns and being seen...
The Possibilities of Sainthood
AuthorDonna Freitas
ISBN0374360871
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen...

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still...
The Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story
AuthorHena Khan
ISBN0811860620
A gentle, prettily-illustrated description of a family's month-long celebration of Ramadan. Most of the description relates to practice -- what is eaten, when various events fall -- rather than the historical or religious meaning, which I would have liked to see a bit more of. I assume the intended...
Pagan's Scribe
AuthorCatherine Jinks
Pagan's final adventure finds our sarcastic hero a bit older and wiser as he leads his young scribe out of the world of books to brave the real-life dangers of a papal crusade.
Impressed by the bookish Isidore, Pagan Kidrouk -- now Archdeacon of Carcassonne -- hires the boy as his scribe. Eager to flee...
Bloodline
AuthorKaty Moran
ISBN1406309389
A smooth , compelling read set in Dark Ages England, one of my favourite periods and settings. Traces the stroy of Essa, a half Briton, half Saxon boy abandoned by his travelling bar/spy/father in a Wixna village without explanation when he is nine
He grows up in the village, struggles to find his...
No Moon
AuthorIrene N. Watts
ISBN0887769713
A story of reliance and resilience.Did you call out to us, Johnny, before your small body was dragged down under the water? Why didn't we hear you? I am sorry! I'll never forget.

Louisa Gardener is the fourteen-year-old nursemaid to the young daughters of a wealthy, titled family living in London,...
Warriors in the Crossfire
AuthorNancy Bo Flood
ISBN1590786610
On the island of Saipan, in the South Pacific, the second world war is a distant idea. The Japanese have governed the island for twenty-five years and they mix regularly with the native islanders. Though no one questions who holds power, the two peoples coexist peacefully.

Joseph has known...
Puppet
AuthorEva Wiseman
ISBN1770492968
A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.

The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old...
A Sword in Her Hand
AuthorJean-Claude van Rijckeghem
ISBN1554512905
A feast of a medieval adventure with a thoroughly modern heroine.

As the murmur of prayers fills the icy room, mother and baby seem doomed. When the newborn finally struggles into the world, the Count of Flanders flees in a rage. The child is not the expected male heir -- but a girl.

Growing...
Greener Grass
AuthorCaroline Pignat

"CLA Children's Book of the Year Award shortlist, 2009Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards shortlist, 2010Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2009AStarred Choice"Kit Byrne's family is a strong one, but their strength and unity are being severely tested, as life becomes more and...
The Gizmo Again
AuthorPaul Jennings
ISBN0140378073
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Paul Jennings was born in Heston near London, and at the age of 6 emigrated to Melbourne, Australia on a boat. He was on the boat for 5 weeks with his family. He attended Bentleigh West Primary School and Caulfield...
Amazing Agent Luna Vol 3
AuthorNunzio DeFilippis
ISBN1933164107
Amazing Agent Luna is the story of Luna, the perfect secret agent. A girl grown in a lab from the finest genetic material, she has been trained since her birth fifteen years ago to be the U.S. government's ultimate espionage weapon. But now she is given an assignment that will test her abilities to the utmost...
The Penguin Henry Lawson: Short Stories
AuthorHenry Lawson
ISBN0140092153
Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed.

In this selection John Barnes reveals Lawson not only as a writer who has delighted past generations.

His short stories, some humourous, some wry, some moving are, above all, enjoyable.

Stories...
The Copper Beech / Evening Class
AuthorMaeve Binchy
ISBN1898801681
Maeve Binchy was born on 28 May 1940 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of four. Her parents were very positive and provided her with a happy childhood. Although she described herself as an overweight child, her parents' attitude gave her the confidence to accept herself for who she...
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