The Maude Reed Tale
10 best books like The Maude Reed Tale (Norah Lofts): A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, Alchemy and Meggy Swann, Octagon Magic, I Am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick and Osian, Remedy For Treason, White Sands, Red Menace, Silent Echoes, The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool, God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls, The Ramsay Scallop
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
I especially anticipated reading this book for a couple of reasons.
1 - I love other books by this author especially From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, McBeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth.
2 - The book tells the story of Eleanor of Aquitaine,...
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0547231849 |
Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann,newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London,dirty and noisy, full of rogues and...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0765352982 |
The secret of Octagon House When her grandmother gets sick, eleven-year-old Lorrie Mallard is sent to live with her aunt in the U.S. Things were different back home in Canada, and Lorrie is homesick—especially when boys like Jimmy Purvis and Stan Wormiski tease her. One day, Lorrie finds herself...
I Am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick and Osian
| Author | Juilene Osborne-McKnight |
| ISBN | 0312875673 |
St. Patrick of Ireland has been enshrined in myth and history as a benign and beloved figure, a native Irish miracle worker who drove both the snakes and the Druids from his homeland and gently issued in the age of Christianity.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Magonus Succatus Patricius...
| Author | Caroline Roe |
| ISBN | 0425162958 |
Girona, Spain. 1353. Struggling to save his patients from the plague, and avoiding the even greater danger of his wife's temper, Isaac discovers that pestilence isn't the city's only killer. A nun dies in the public baths. Then it is revealed that she is not a nun at all, but an attendant to the queen in...
| Author | Ellen Klages |
| ISBN | 0670062359 |
It is 1946. World War II is over--ended by the atomic bomb that Dewey Kerrigan's and Suze Gordon's scientist parents helped build. Dewey's been living with the Gordons since before the war's end, before her father died, moving south with them to Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the White Sands Missile Range,...
| Author | Carla Jablonski |
| ISBN | 1595140824 |
What happens to a teenage girl who starts hearing voices? The answer is vastly different for two girls living in two different eras. When a “spirit” contacts Lucy Phillips at a séance in nineteenth-century Manhattan, Lucy quickly gains fame as a talented medium who can impart knowledge about...
| Author | Margaret Gray |
| ISBN | 0805068473 |
Can a seafaring fairy godmother, a wise fool, and an enchanted hairstyle keep Princess Rose out of trouble?
"A very long time ago, when all the countries you’ve ever heard of were in different places on the map, a princess was born who was not beautiful. She wasn’t even remotely pretty, and...
| Author | Jaime Hernández |
| ISBN | 1606995391 |
Originally serialized in Love and Rockets New Stories, Ti-Girls Adventures managed to be both a rollickingly creative super-hero joyride (featuring three separate super-teams and over two dozen characters) that ranged from the other side of the universe to Maggie 's shabby apartment, and a genuinely...
| Author | Frances Temple |
| ISBN | 0064406016 |
The year is 1299. Fourteen year-old Elenor reluctantly awaits the return of her betrothed -- a man she hardly knows -- from the Crusade. Thomas, broken, and disillusioned from years of fighting, finds the very idea of marriage and lordship overwhelming. So when the village priest sends them on religious...
While her sisters are tall and beautiful, Celestia Montehue is the misfit in a royal family—petite, with one green and one blue eye. The only thing she has in common with her ancestors is her magical healing ability. Fearing no one will ever accept her, she vows never to marry.
Meanwhile, Nicholas...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0142403229 |
Thirteen-year-old Rachel dreads the afternoons she has to spend with her great- grandmother, Nana Sashie-until Sashie begins to reminisce about her childhood in Russia and Rachel finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of memories. As the events and characters of Sashie's past come to life, Rachel...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0192713213 |
The Abbey of New Minster means safety to Lovel. It is the reign of Henry I in England, and the monks protect Lovel from the people who think that, because of his crooked back and healing skills, he must be a witch. And, he has nowhere else to go.
Then he meets Rahere, the King's Jester, in the abbey...
| Author | Mary Hooper |
| ISBN | 0747586705 |
Mon billet complet sur le blog
J’ai découvert Mary Hooper il y a deux ans avec son "Waterloo Necropolis" ; un roman jeunesse se déroulant à l’ère victorienne et abordant des sujets dont je ne connaissais alors pas grand-chose. Depuis j’ai lu plusieurs de ses autres bouquins qui m’ont...
"The course of life to which Mary and her little retinue were doomed, was in the last degree secluded and lonely, varied only as the weather permitted or rendered impossible the Queen's usual walk in the garden, or on the battlements." - from The Abbot.
They were the literary phenomenon of their...
| Author | H.F.M. Prescott |
| ISBN | 0020238304 |
Richmond, North Yorkshire
Description: A powerful novel of England during the reign of Henry VIII. When the King's men despoil the monasteries and divide the wealth among the royal favorites, rebellion begins to brew in the north--and for a few weeks, the leader held the fate of a nation in...
