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This bibliography is being continually updated. Below are the titles of all books added in 2008. 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.
In section Nineteenth Century --- Smuggling
Smuggling and treason during the Napoleonic Wars.
In section The Magic Tree House
These are the first two books in a time travel series for very young children. Click on the link and you will be taken to The Magic Tree House page.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
England 1855. A foundling working in a circus, an abduction and a treasonable plot involving the sale of guns and the Crimean War.
In section Eighteenth Century -- General.
Timeslip. Two children are trapped in the eighteenth century
In section The Byzantium Empire
The adventures of two young Greek spies at the beginning of the eleventh century.
This is a trilogy about a large country house in Kent. In particular it follows the fortunes of a family of loyal servants over three generations.The three books are set in the 1890s, and in the times of the First World War and the Second World War. The period snapshot given in each book shows how times, and especially the social structure of society, changes.
Click on the link and you will be taken to the Swallowcliffe Hall page.
The Hall in Victorian times. A young girl goes to work as a housemaid at the Hall.
The Hall during the First World War and the effect the War had on the people who lived there.
The Hall during the Second World War. Isobel, the granddaughter of Polly in the first book, makes friends with a young refugee.
In section Twentieth Century -- The Suffragettes
A girl at a school for young ladies takes part in a suffragette action and finds herself in disgrace. She is then sent to an island in the Caribbean where her family have a sugar plantation.
In section Sixteenth Century -- Mary Queen of Scots
This is another in Scholastic’s My Story series of fictional diaries. The brother of a young girl becomes friendly with Antony Babbington.
In section Sixteenth Century -- General
A young pickpocket gets the chance to become assissant to mapmaker John White and goes on the expedition to found a colony in Virginia.
In section The Sixteenth Century -- Leonardo da Vinci
A young boy with a dark secret becomes assistant to Leonardo da Vinci and gets caught up in the struggles between the city states.
In section America 2
The problems of a Hungarian immigrant family in Cincinatti in1952 as seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy.
In section America2
The polio epedemic in North Carolina in 1944 and a young girl's struggle back to health
In section Ancient Egypt
A mystery story set in Ancient Egypt
In section America1.
A novelised account of the story of the Fox sisters and the beginnings of spiritualism.
In section America1.
The story of Edwina Booth, the daughter of the actor brother of John Wilkes Booth who shot Abraham Lincoln.
In section America 1
The sinking of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in 1860. The second greatest tragedy on the Great Lakes. Told from the perspective of Fiona in 1860 and Maggie at the present time.
In section Nineteenth Century -- General
The last book in the quartet about Montmorency, the criminal who became a spy.
Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.
In section Eighteenth Century -- General.
An erxtension of Alfred Noyes' famous poem The Highwayman. Here the highwayman is given a daughter who has to chart her own way in life after the deaths of her parents.
In section Alternative History.
The last book in the trilogy about what might have happened if Hitler had invaded Britain. Click on the link and you will be taken to Against the Day, the first book of the trilogy, and you can scroll down.
In section Ancient Greece.
The story of Alexander the Great as told by his warhorse Bucephalus.
In section The Sixteenth Century -- Queen Elizabeth -- The Lady Grace Mysteries
Another in the series about Lady Grace, Queen Elizabeth's lady pursuivant. Here an actor is shot dead on the stage in front of Queen Elizabeth. The culprit is soon apprehended but Grace is convinced he is innocent and sets out to prove it.
Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.
In section The Eighteenth Century -- The Cat Royal Series.
This is the first book in a new series about an orphan girl who was brought up in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She grows up to be resourceful and courageous and has many adventures.
A later book in the Cat Royal series. Cat goes to Jamaica with a travelling theatre company. She is abducted and made an indented servant but escapes on a pirate ship. Finally she ends up on thr island of San Domingo during the slave rebellion.
Click on the link for the Diamond of Diamond Lane and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down.
In section Historical Fantasy.
Historical fantasy. Set in a small fishing village on the Bay of Fundy in August 1886.
In section Historical Fantasy
Historical fantasy and adventure set during the American War of Independence.
In section The Roman Mysteries
An extra book in the Roman Mystery series. This is a book of short stories about Flavia, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus filling I what the friends did between the main mysteries.
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The thirteenth in the Roman Mystery series. Flavia and her friends try to prove the innocence of a slave girl accused of murder. Contains much detail about the Roman legal system.
The fourteenth in the Roman Mysteries series. Here the four friends are sent to North Africa to help to find a symbolic jewel for Nero. They meet a group of beast hunters --- the men who go and capture beasts for the arena and also join up with a pantomine group.
In section The Sixteenth Century --- Renaissance Italy
A murder mystery set in Italy at the time of the Renaissance.
In section The Sixteenth Century -- Shakespeare
A young boy becomes one of Walsingham's spies. On his first assignment he meets General Othello and he tells Shakespeare all about this when he returns to England.
In section Japan.
A young boy in sisteenth century Japan learns how to become a samurai.
In section South Africa.
Kenya in the 1950s. This is the story of two boys who live on a farm at the foot of Mount Kenya and how their lives are changed for ever by the Mau Mau.
In section South Africa
A teenage girl in Johannesburg 1976 at the height of apartheid.
In section King Arthur
A highly original retelling of the Arthur legend
In section Nineteenth Century -- The Navy
This is the third volume in the series about Sam Witchall. Here Sam becomes a midshipman and serves aboard the Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Click on the link and you will be taken to the first book in the series and you can scroll down. (The second book in the series is in section Australia.)
In section Middle Ages --- Teenagers
This is the last in the trilogy about the Crusades which began with Blood Red Horse.
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In section Sixteenth Century --- General
Two stories about a young girl who goes to work as nursemaid to the two children of Dr Dee -- the magician of Queen Elizabeth. She later becomes one of Walsingham's spies.
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