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10 best books like The King's Shadow (Elizabeth Alder): The Tinker's Daughter: A Story Based on the Life of Mary Bunyan, Far Traveler, Girl in a Cage, The Fairy Rebel, The Princess Adelina: An Ancient Christian Tale of Beauty & Bravery, Night Journeys, The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen, I Am Regina, More Minds, The Primrose Way

The Tinker's Daughter: A Story Based on the Life of Mary Bunyan
AuthorWendy Lawton
ISBN0802440991
John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress, only mentioned one of his children in his memoirs: Mary. Born blind in 17th-century England, she held a special place in her Father's heart.

When Mr. Bunyan was arrested for unlawful preaching, young Mary travels the streets of Bedford each...
Far Traveler
AuthorRebecca Tingle
ISBN0142406309
When King Edward gives his niece Ælfwyn two choices--marry one of his allies or become a nun--Wyn is at a loss to decide. Her strong, warrior mother has just died, so it's impossible to know what she would have wanted.Wyn takes the first risk of her life and flees. Disguising herself as a boy, she adopts...
Girl in a Cage
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0142401323
When her father, Robert the Bruce, becomes King of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce becomes a princess. But Edward Longshanks, the ruthless King of England, has set his sights on Robert and his family. Marjorie is captured and imprisoned in a wooden cage in the center of a town square, exposed to wind, rain,...
The Fairy Rebel
AuthorLynne Reid Banks
ISBN0440419255
The Fairy Queen strictly forbids fairies from using their magic power on humans. But after Tiki accidentally meets Jan, a woman who is desperate for a baby daughter, she finds it impossible to resist fulfilling her wish. Now up against the dark and vicious power of evil, this fairy rebel must face the...
The Princess Adelina: An Ancient Christian Tale of Beauty & Bravery
AuthorJulie Sutter
ISBN1934554332
From eighth-century Germany comes the stirring tale of Princess Adelina, a virtuous young woman determined to fulfill God's call on her life. The daughter of an Iona missionary to the German people, Adelina's world is turned upside-down when a young pagan ruler, Hedan of Thurginia, falls in love with...
Night Journeys
AuthorAvi
ISBN0380732424
The year is 1768. In eight years, the American Revolution will begin. Newly orphaned, Peter York has been adopted by a deeply religious Quaker fame. Peter chafes under his new guardian's strict and unyielding views and vows to break away. He sees his chance when two runaway indentured servants are reported...
The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen
AuthorLloyd Alexander
ISBN0142402257
When Prince Jen volunteers to search for the legendary court of T'ien-kuo, a mysterious old man chooses six gifts for him to bear in homage: a saddle, a sword, a paint box, a bowl, a kite, and a flute. Puzzled by the gifts but full of high spirits and pride, Jen sets off, but stumbles almost immediately into...
I Am Regina
AuthorSally M. Keehn
ISBN0698119207
The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she...
More Minds
AuthorCarol Matas
"And she stomped purposely out of the room, muttering something about using all the power she could get and maybe asking Sayley if she'd like to join her in a little adventure.

Coren stared after her. Well, that was life with Lenora. Never dull.

He shrugged an apology to Fullbright and...
The Primrose Way
AuthorJackie 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,...
Escape from Egypt
AuthorSonia Levitin
ISBN0140375376
Sonia Levitin has written excellent books. Journey to America is a classic of Jewish historical fiction. This is not excellent, by any means. It is religious, which I am not comfortable with. It is a poor story. You are never altogether sure how the two ended up with each other. There is too much back and...
The Quest of the Fair Unknown
AuthorGerald Morris
ISBN0618631526
On her deathbed, Beaufils’s mother leaves him with a quest and a clue: find your father, a knight of King Arthur’s court. So Beaufils leaves the isolated forest of his youth and quickly discovers that he has much to learn about the world beyond his experience. Beaufils’s innocence never fails...
The Shining Company
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0374466165
Life is secure and peaceful for young Prosper, second son of Gerontius, until the day Prince Gorthyn arrives with his hunting party. Prosper's unusual daring in the hunt catches the prince's attention, and he promises to make Prosper his shield-bearer when he comes of age. Two years later, three hundred...
Arabel and Mortimer
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN0152060820
Arabel Jones and her raven companion, Mortimer, return in this second collection of short stories, following the initial title, Arabel's Raven. In Mortimer's Tie, Mortimer's quest to find a diamond eventually wins the Jones family a free cruise. But will Mortimer's penchant for disaster ruin their...
Looking for the King
AuthorDavid C. Downing
ISBN1586175149
It is 1940, and American Tom McCord, a 23-year-old aspiring doctoral candidate, is in England researching the historical evidence for the legendary King Arthur. There he meets perky and intuitive Laura Hartman, a fellow American staying with her aunt in Oxford, and the two of them team up for an even...
The King's Swift Rider: A Novel on Robert the Bruce
AuthorMollie Hunter
ISBN0060271868
Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, led Scotland's rebel army in a thirty-year war against England. Now award-winning author Mollie Hunter tells the story of this legendary king, and of the young man who would become his swift rider and master of espionage. As Scotland's guerrilla campaign gathers bloody...
Son of Charlemagne
AuthorBarbara Willard
ISBN1883937302
The year is 781 A.D. King Charles of the Franks is crossing the Alps with his family and court on a journey to meet with Pope Hadrian. One frosty night he speaks to his young son Carl of his plans for the future: "When we come to Rome you will know that I am naming you my heir. One day you will rule over all my lands..."...
The Bandit of Ashley Downs: George Muller
AuthorDave Jackson
ISBN1556612702
Era: Late 1800’s

Setting: London, England & Bristol, England

Content: 1/5

Curly receives a beating from Spuds. No details. Curly’s memories of his violent Dad, no details. No kissing or romance. No language.

Age-range: 8-12 (but I would recommend it...
St. Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars
AuthorG.A. Henty
ISBN1417961805
The hero, Philip Fletcher, is a right true English lad, but he has a French connection on his mother's side. This kinship induces him to cross the Channel in order to take a share in that splendid struggle for freedom known as the Huguenot wars. Naturally he sides with the Protestants, distinguishes himself...
Behold the Many
AuthorLois-Ann Yamanaka
ISBN0312426542
In 1913, stricken by tuberculosis, young Anah, Aki, and Leah are sent away from their family for treatment at St. Joseph's, an orphanage in Hawai'i's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, and only Anah, the eldest, will survive. But the ghosts of the dead sisters will haunt Anah as she prepares...
Tirzah
AuthorLucille Travis
ISBN0836135466
Tirzah's people, the Israelites, have been in slavery to the Egyptians for many years. Tirzah and her lame brother, Oren, help gather straw to make bricks. She observes the suffering of her people and the injustices that are done to them by the Egyptian police. Moses begs Pharaoh to let them go, but Pharaoh...
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