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Author
Language
English
Description
"Trojan princess Cassandra is cursed by Apollo with the gift of prophecy, and must try to find her place in a world that she knows to be perilous; years later, will her friendship with a young Amazon princess named Rin help her to avert a disastrous end to their war?"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Formats
Description
When renowned beauty Helen runs off to Troy with Prince Paris, her enraged husband, King Menelaus, starts the Trojan War, leaving their plain daughter, Hermione, alone to witness the deaths of heroes on both sides and longing to find her own love and place in the world. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Allowing herself to be hynotized, fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories of another time and place that may eventually cost her and her mother their lives.
7) The Iliad
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Retells the events of the war between Greece and the city of Troy, focusing on Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon.
9) Troy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up.
11) Wall
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows a small boy and his family as they try to reunite with his father after the Berlin Wall is built.
12) Red scare
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be a normal kid, until she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to overturn the tense political stalemate, and Peggy finds...
14) Frozen in time
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In present-day England, thirteen-year-old Ben and his twelve-year-old sister Rachel find two children who have been cryogenically frozen in a bomb shelter since 1956, and must prevent them from being discovered while helping them adjust to modern life.
15) A good trade
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In Uganda, a young boy struggles to carry cans full of water back to his small village, and when he sees an aid truck filled with something that would make his journey easier, he devises a way to obtain some of the truck's treasure.
16) Victory
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alternating chapters follow the mysterious connection between a homesick English girl living in present-day America and an eleven-year-old boy serving in the British Royal Navy in 1803, aboard the H.M.S. Victory, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Author
Series
Shadow Project adventures volume 2
Publisher
Balzer & Bray
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working on a highly-classified espionage project, four English teenagers go back in time to the Cold War in 1962 to prevent a global outbreak of the bubonic plague in the twenty-first century.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
263 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxandra calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy.
19) Elephant run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of a Palestinian family's ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye.
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