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New Additions 2006

This bibliography is being continually updated. Below are the titles of all books added in 2006. Click on the link and you will be taken to the note on the book except where the book is one of a series. In this case you will be taken to the first book of the series and you can then scroll down.

Witch Child, Celia Rees

In section The Seventeenth Century -- The Puritans

In England a young girl sees her grandmother hanged as a witch. She herself sails to New England with a group of Puritans. But once settled in the new colony she herself is in danger of being denounced as a witch.

Sorceress, Celia Rees

In section America 1

Seventeenth New England. Accused of witchcraft a young girl runs away from her Puritan settlement and is accepted by an Indian tribe. This is a sequel to Witch Child.

Maggie Rose and Sass, Eunice Boeve

In section America 1

Kansas in 1888. Two young girls are coming to terms with their cultural and racial differences.

The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose

In section Seventeenth Century -- London

A young girl goes to London in search of her father, is thrown into the Fleet Prison, is befriended by Nell Gwyn and meets King Charles II himself

Gatty’s Tale, Kevin Crossley-Holland

In section Middle Ages -- Younger children

This is a spin-off from Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur trilogy. Here one of the characters is given a book all to herself. Young Gatty becomes a lady's maid and goes on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first of the Arthur trilogy and you can then scroll down.

My Story.Flying Ace. Jack Fairfax

In section Twentieth Century -- The First World War

Two young pilots in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War

The Sirens of Surrentum, Caroline Lawrence

The Charioteer of Delphi, Caroline Lawrence

In section The Roman Mysteries

Two more stories in the mystery series about Flavia Gemina and her three friends. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first in the series and can scroll down.

Chariot Boy and the Warrior Queen, Charles Jackson

In section Roman Times --- Younger Children

A young boy during Queen Boudicca's revolt against the Romans

Fall of the Sun God, Henye Meyer

In section Middle Ages --- Teenagers.

A teenage Jewish boy is trying to find his niche in the world. He gets involved in the First Crusade, goes to Constantinople and joins the Varangian Guard.

My Story: Spy Smuggler, Jim Eldridge

In section The Twentieth Century --- Second World War --- Europe

A teenage boy in France works for the Resistance.

The Haswell Chronicles. Web of Treason, Susey Nuttall

In section Sixteenth Century --- General.

The first book in a trilogy. A young boy and his sister living in a big house discover just how dangerous life under King Henry VIII can be.

The Lady Grace Mysteries. Haunted, Jan Burchett and Sara Vogler

In section Sixteenth Century --- Queen Elizabeth --- the Lady Grace Mysteries

Another mystery concerning Lady Grace, Queen Elizabeth's private investigator -- or Lady Pursuivant. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.

Endymion Spring, Matthew Skelton

In section Middle Ages --- Teenagers.

Historicasl fantasy written round Gutenberg and the printing press.

My Story.Waterloo. Bob Jenkins, Royal Horse Artillery 1814-1817, Bryan Perrett

In section Nineteenth Century -- General.

A young boy at the Battle of Trafalgar.

The Foreshadowing, Marcus Sedgwick

In section Twentieth Century --- The First World War.

A aseventeen-year-old girl in France during the First World War

Once, Morris Gleitzman

In section Twentieth Century -- Fascism and the Persecution of the Jews.

A young Jewish boy who is given to fantasising finally has to come to terms with Hitler and the Nazis.

Victory, Susan Cooper

In section Nineteenth Century -- The Navy.

A young boy aboard the Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. His story is linked with that of a young girl in the twenty-first century.

Powder Monkey, Paul Dowswell

In section Nineteenth Century -- The Navy.

A thirteen-year-old boy aboard a frigate in Nelson's navy.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne

In section Twentieth Century -- Fascism and the Persecution of the Jews

An unusual story about Auswitz

The Whispering Road, Livi Michael

In section The Nineteenth Century -- General

Two workhouse children run away from the farmer they have been placed with.

Gladiatrix. The Supreme Warrior

In section Roman Times -- Older Children.

This is the last volume in the trilogy about Victrix, the female gladiator. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the trilogy and you can scroll down.

Plague Sorcerer, Christopher Russell

In section Middle Ages -- Younger Children 2

This is a sequel to Brint and the Dogs of War. Back in England after the Battle of Crecy Aurelie is accused of being a witch and Brint is said to be a plague-bringer. An unusual look at England during the plague years. Click on the link and you will be taken to Brint and the Dogs of War and you can scroll down.

Forged in the Fire, Ann Turnbull

In section Seventeenth Century -- Religion. Also in Seventeenth Century -- Plague and Fire.

This is the sequel to No Shame, No Fear, the story about two young members of the Society of Friends and the persecution they face. Click on the link and you will be taken to No Shame, No Fear and you can scroll down.

The Abbey Mysteries. The Silent Man

In section Middle Ages. Younger Children 2.

Thew second book in the medieval mystery series about the son and daughter of the Glastonbury innkeeper. Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.

At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Mary Hooper, Bloomsbury, 2003, £5.99, paperback, 176 pages, ISBN 0-7475-6124-9

Petals in the Ashes, Mary Hooper, Bloomsbury, 2004, £5.99, paperback, 192 pages, ISBN 0-7475-6461-2

In section Seventeenth Century -- Plague and Fire.

At The Sign of the Sugared Plum describes the experiences of a young girl in London during the Great Plague. The sequel, Petals in the Ashes, follows on directly and shows what happens when she is caught up in the Great Fire of London.

Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book. You can then scroll down to the second book.

The House of Windjammer, Book 1, V.A. Richardson

In section Seventeenth Century -- General

The exciting first book in a series about an Amsterdam trading company in the Seventeenth Century.

Yankee Girl, Mary Ann Rodman

In section America 2.

The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s as seen through the eyes of a young girl.

A Window to the World, Eunice Boeve

In section America 1.

A twelve-year-old girl growing up in rural Virginia in the years before the American Civil War.

The Stratford Boys, Jan Mark

In The Sixteenth Century -- Shakespeare.

An imaginative description of how the teenage William Shakespeare came to write his first play.

Ship’s Angel, Bridget Crowley

In section The Middle Ages -- Teenagers

This is a sequel to The Feast of Fools. John has left the choir school and is searching for his friend Aaron. Click on the link and you will be taken to the review of The Feast of Fools and you can scroll down.

Warrior Girl, Pauline Chandler

In section The Middle Ages -- Teenagers

Joan of Arc as seen by her cousin.

Wolf Girl, Theresa Tomlinson

In section The Anglo-Saxons.

A mystery set in Whitby Abbey in the year before the Synod. For twelve plus.

The Lady Grace Mysteries. Feud, Patricia Finney

The Lady Grace Mysteries. Gold, Jan Burchett and Sara Vogler

In section The Sixteenth Century. Queen Elizabeth. The Lady Grace Mysteries.

Two more stories about Lady Grace, the youngest Maid of Honour and Lady Pursuivant to Queen Elizabeth. In Feud Grace finds out all about the workroom at the top of the Palace where painters are busy at work on portraits of the Queen. Grace also learns that paints are very poisonous and that another of the Maids of Honour is being poisoned. In Gold a wedding at Windsor Castle is marred by the theft of some of the Queen's gold and jewels.

Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.

The Roman Mysteries: The Colossus of Rhodes, Caroline Lawrence

The Roman Mysteries: The Fugitive from Corinth

In section The Roman Mysteries.

Two more in the series about Flavia Gemina and her three young friends. In the first book they sail across the ancient Mediterranean after slave traders and in the second they go to the Oracle at Delphi and then to the Acropolis trying to discover why Flavia's father has been attacked.

Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series.

Polly’s March, Linda Newbery

In section The Twentieth Century -- The Suffragettes

A twelve-year-old girl meets two suffragettes and longs to go on a march with them.

Brind and the Dogs of War, Christopher Russell

In section Middle Ages -- Younger Children

A young kennel boy and his dogs at the Battle of Crecy

Coyote Moon, Martin Booth

In section America 1

A young boy and girl on a long and dangerous cattle drive

 

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