Escape from Egypt
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| Author | Clemence McLaren |
| ISBN | 0689873972 |
Two women, one war.
Helen, at age twelve, is not prepared to deal with her famous beauty: to have the face that will launch a thousand ships, kill fifty thousand men, and cause the fall of the world's greatest city. But when she is kidnapped by Theseus of Athens, she begins her journey into womanhood...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 0590241893 |
The last book Hilary and I read by this author reminded me of the movie (and Leon Uris’s book) Exodus. This one reminded me of Sophie & Hans Scholl and the White Rose, and of the children’s book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, about how Denmark’s citizens saved its country’s Jews from the Nazis....
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0590205242 |
I think everyone needs to read this book. It is an eye opening experience to what the Underground Railroad was like. The book stars two 14 year old girls: Lucy, whose family is rich and white, and Afrika, an escaped slave girl. Their paths get closer and closer throughout the book, as Lucy discovers some...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0688110282 |
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
| Author | Pamela F. Service |
| ISBN | 0449703398 |
Lorna Padgett, an archeologist's daughter, has inherited her father's love for ancient Egypt. Ameni lived over four thousand years ago. The son of a Pharoah, he loved adventure but had no idea what destiny the gods were holding for him. These two should never have met. But a walk in the hills near her father's...
| Author | Jackie French Koller |
Living in a rough Puritan missionary settlement that borders an Indian village, sixteen-year-old Rebekah is forced to choose between two cultures when she falls in love with a defiant Pawtucket medicine man. “Issues about separation of church and state, the scandalous idea of thinking for oneself,...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0553296728 |
Scottie-Anne's older sister is a 'professional' participant in beauty contests, and after watching so many of them, Scottie-Anne's conclusion is that brains don't count much. she wants nothing to do with what she considers the shallow, egotistical world of pageants-until her school holds one....
| Author | Jamake Highwater |
| ISBN | 0064404374 |
Anpao is young and Handsome and Brave -- a man any maiden would be proud to call her husband. Any maiden but Ko-Ko-Mik-e-is, that is, who calims she belongs to the Sun alone. And so Anpao sets off for the house of the Sun to ask permission to marry the woman he loves. But Anpao's journey is not an easy one. Before...
| Author | Marietta D. Moskin |
| ISBN | 0735102252 |
I gave this book five star because it was one of my favorite books when I was in middle/high school. It was the catalyst for me reading everything I could find at the time about the Holocaust. Looking back on it with the knowledge gained over the years, I have to say it sounds very unrealistic--Rosemarie...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 0590203487 |
Nathan had almost always dreamed of pirates back at Graylake School. When he and his sister, Maud, become orphaned after their father suddenly dies, they leave England with the famous pirate’s son, Tamo White after he offers them a place to stay. They sail away to far away Madagascar where they settle...
| Author | Scott O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0618494936 |
Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers through Ricca di Montanaro’s eyes a new perspective on the man who became the famous Saint Francis of Assisi, the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. “Lord,...
| Author | Nancy Garden |
| ISBN | 0590929496 |
This young adult novel is the tale of Gabrielle de Domremy who is a childhood friend of Joan of Arc. Gabrielle learns healing and midwifery from her mother, and follows Joan's army as a medic. She dresses as a boy, loves (chastely, of course) a soldier, and even follows Joan after she is captured and imprisoned...
| Author | Gail Langer Karwoski |
| ISBN | 1561452769 |
It is 1804, the year that Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery set out for their now-legendary exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, departing St. Louis to travel across the continent to the Pacific Ocean and back.
This fictionalized biography of Lewis and Clark's journey...
| Author | Avner Mandelman |
| ISBN | 1590513703 |
Winner of the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel
In Middle East lore the Debba is a mythical Arab hyena that can turn into a man who lures Jewish children away from their families to teach them the language of the beasts. To the Arabs he is a heroic national symbol; to the Jews he is...
"Full of history, danger, courage and raw survival, this compelling novel by acclaimed author Joseph Bruchac is certain to have readers on the edge of their seat, start to finish." —The Dallas Morning News
Saxso is fourteen when the British attack his village. It’s 1759, and war is raging...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590023853 |
While I liked this one slightly less than the first Amalia book, it was still good. It was interesting to read about Maggie's eating disorder from the prospective of someone who cared about her. It's so hard when you have a friend going through something like that, whether it's a mental illness, an eating...
| Author | Catherine Clark |
| ISBN | 0553566644 |
Story time
Hace más de 3 años, una amiga me pasó un pdf de un libro que -según ella- era muy bueno. En ese momento no me llamó la atención y simplemente lo guardé...tan bien guardado que permaneció oculto hasta hoy que decidí limpiar archivos inútiles y lo encontré, y estuvo a punto...
Washington Avalanche, 1910
| Author | Cameron Dokey |
| ISBN | 0671036041 |
""Buried alive..."" Desperate to escape her cruel stepbrother, Ginny Nolan races onto a train heading west to Seattle. On the train she meets Virginia Hightower, who is en route to Seattle to marry a man she's never even met. Eager to help her newfound friend, Ginny suggests that they switch identities...
