The FitzOsbornes at War
10 best books like The FitzOsbornes at War (Michelle Cooper): Keeping the Castle, A Rose for the ANZAC Boys, Queen of Hearts, Long May She Reign, Flambards, The Book of the Maidservant, Sarah's Story, Promise the Night, Little Paradise, Crossing the Tracks
| Author | Patrice Kindl |
| ISBN | 0670014389 |
Seventeen-year-old Althea is the sole support of her entire family, and she must marry well. But there are few wealthy suitors--or suitors of any kind--in their small Yorkshire town of Lesser Hoo. Then, the young and attractive (and very rich) Lord Boring arrives, and Althea sets her plans in motion....
| Author | Jackie French |
| ISBN | 0732285402 |
The 'War to end all Wars', as seen through the eyes of three young women
It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen–year–old New Zealander Midge Macpherson, at school in England learning to be a young lady. But...
| Author | Martha Brooks |
| ISBN | 0374342296 |
Coming of age in a hospital bed—a deeply affecting portrait of a teen's journey through a TB sanatorium in the 1940s.
On the prairies of Canada during World War II, a girl and her two young siblings begin a war of their own. Stricken with tuberculosis, they are admitted to a nearby sanatorium....
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 0312367678 |
Meg Powers is the daughter of the President of the United States. She's about to enter her first year of college. She's living through the worst year of her life.
Last June Meg was kidnapped by terrorists - brutalized, starved, and left for dead. She was shackled in a deserted mine shaft and had...
| Author | K.M. Peyton |
| ISBN | 0192719556 |
Description: A totally absorbing novel about twelve-year-old Christina who is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional...
| Author | Rebecca Barnhouse |
| ISBN | 0375958568 |
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....
| Author | Ruth Elwin Harris |
| ISBN | 0763617075 |
(Originally published in Britain as The Silent Shore.)
Four independent-minded sisters come of age in the early 1900s -- and four interwoven novels tell their stories, each through a different sister's eyes.
The year is 1910, and the four Purcell sisters have only each other. Their...
Immediately compelling and action-packed, this carefully researched work of historical fiction introduces young readers to the childhood of the famous yet elusive Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo from England to North America. As in her debut novel, Prisoners in the Palace, MacColl propels...
| Author | Gabrielle Wang |
| ISBN | 0143011472 |
3.5 stars
Little Paradise has been described as "an epic love story set during World War Two in Melbourne and Shanghai"
I am more than a little in awe of how well incorporated the little details of setting and culture and have been weaved into the story. It's intricate and lyrical and...
| Author | Barbara Stuber |
| ISBN | 1416997032 |
At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts -- no home, no family, no direction. After her mother’s early death, Iris’s father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country...
| Author | Katherine Schlick Noe |
| ISBN | 0547558139 |
Can a white girl feel at home on an Indian reservation?
Based on the author’s childhood experience in the early 1960s, this novel centers on Kitty, whose father is a government forester at Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon. Kitty is one of only two white kids in her class, and the Indian kids...
| Author | Elizabeth E. Wein |
| ISBN | 0142401293 |
After the death of virtually all of her family in the battle of Camlan, Goewin, Princess of Britain, daughter of the High King Artos, makes a desperate journey to African Aksum, to meet with Constantine, the British ambassador and her fiance. But Aksum is undergoing political turmoil, and Goewin's...
| Author | Cynthia Wright |
| ISBN | 0345386671 |
THE WILD WEST OF 1876 WAS NO PLACE FOR A LADY
And Madeleine Avery was every inch a fine Philadelphia lady, from the top of her tidy head to the tips of her ivory kid shoes. Gold had lured her father to the Black Hills – but with neighbors like Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, and a Little Bighorn survivor,...
An omnibus edition of Judith Kerr’s internationally acclaimed trilogy, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Other Way Round and A Small Person Far Away, we see the world through Anna’s eyes as she grows up – from her much loved family to Hitler’s holocaust.Anna was a German child when she had to...
| Author | Kathryn Miller Haines |
| ISBN | 1596436093 |
Iris Anderson is only 15, but she's quickly mastering the art of deception in this YA novel for fans of Veronica Mars. It's the Fall of 1942 and Iris's world is rapidly changing. Her Pop is back from the war with a missing leg, limiting his ability to do the physically grueling part of his detective work....
| Author | Leanne Hall |
| ISBN | 1921758643 |
I really liked Leanne Hall's debut novel
This is Shyness
. The world that Hall created was phenomenal - a perpetually night-bound suburb called Shyness where the sun has stopped rising; the relationship that blossoms wildly over the course of 24 hours between two strangers from opposite sides of...
| Author | Sonya Hartnett |
| ISBN | 0763667358 |
Internationally acclaimed author Sonya Hartnett tells a hauntingly beautiful story set during World War II.
Cecily and Jeremy have been sent to live with their uncle Peregrine in the English countryside, safe from the war, along with a young refugee named May. But when Cecily and May find...
| Author | Susan Kim |
| ISBN | 1596432624 |
Mystery, intrigue, and pastries abound in this World War II spy tale
Evelyn typically satisfies her longing for adventure with the help of a pencil and a sheet of paper. But when she makes a new friend, Tony, she's happy to abandon her art for a real-life search for spies. When the two accidentally...
| Author | Kelly Gardiner |
| ISBN | 0732292808 |
England, 1640. Sixteen-year-old Isabella is forced to flee her home when her father’s radical ideas lead him into a suicidal stand against Oliver Cromwell’s army. Taking refuge in Amsterdam and desperate to find a means to survive, Isabella finds work with an elderly printer, Master de Aquila,...
| Author | Carla Jablonski |
| ISBN | 1596432926 |
When Nazis invade, what can kids do to fight them? World War II has taken its toll on the French countryside. German soldiers patrol the towns, searching for any challenge to their rule. The Tessier siblings, Paul, Marie, and Sophie, keep their noses clean and their faces blank as the French military...
