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Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > Historical fiction
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Anonymous
(Hardcover)
Scott Jacobs
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Discovery Miles 4 740
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A Newbery Honor Book * BookPage Best Books * Chicago Public Library
Best Fiction * Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee * Horn Book Fanfare
* New York Times Notable Children's Book * School Library Journal
Best Book * Today Show Pick * An ALA Notable Book "A 10 out of 10 .
. . Anyone interested in science, sibling relationships, and
friendships will enjoy reading We Dream of Space."-Time for Kids
Newbery Medalist and New York Times-bestselling author Erin Entrada
Kelly transports readers to 1986 and introduces them to the
unforgettable Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas in this
pitch-perfect middle grade novel about family, friendship, science,
and exploration. This acclaimed Newbery Honor Book is a great
choice for readers of Kate DiCamillo, Rita Williams-Garcia, and
Rebecca Stead. Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas are three
siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as
the country waits expectantly for the launch of the space shuttle
Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties.
Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in
danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends
every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main and
wrestles with an explosive temper that he doesn't understand. And
Bird, his twelve-year-old twin, dreams of being NASA's first female
shuttle commander, but feels like she's disappearing. The Nelson
Thomas children exist in their own orbits, circling a tense and
unpredictable household, with little in common except an
enthusiastic science teacher named Ms. Salonga. As the launch of
the Challenger approaches, Ms. Salonga gives her students a
project-they are separated into spacecraft crews and must create
and complete a mission. When the fated day finally arrives, it
changes all of their lives and brings them together in unexpected
ways. Told in three alternating points of view, We Dream of Space
is an unforgettable and thematically rich novel for middle grade
readers. We Dream of Space is illustrated throughout by the author.
A thrilling Gothic tale from the author of Our Castle by the Sea,
shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. 'Told in
deft and luminous language, The Ghost of Gosswater is storytelling
at its very best.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of THE GIRL OF
INK & STARS 'Family secrets, a ghost girl and a forbidding
manor house that goes up in smoke ... You can't help rooting for
Agatha in this spooky, addictive tale of friendship and family.'
THE TIMES 'Eerie, shimmering, unputdownable' HILARY MCKAY, winner
of the Costa Book Award The Lake District, 1899 The Earl is dead
and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old
Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a
tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her
father. Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she
is not alone on her quest for the truth. On the last day of the
year, when the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious girl of light
creeps through the crack in time; she will not rest until the dark,
terrible secrets of the past have been revealed ... The third novel
by acclaimed bestselling author Lucy Strange, author of The Secret
of Nightingale Wood and Our Castle by the Sea A thrilling gothic
adventure for young readers aged 9 and up - perfect for fans of
Emma Carroll and Frances Hardinge Follows strong-willed heroine
Agatha Gosswater as she untangles the dark mystery of her own past,
with the backdrop of the eerie Gosswater Lake
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Vesuvius
(Hardcover)
Cass Biehn
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R537
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Discovery Miles 4 130
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This thrilling historical fantasy set days before Mount Vesuvius destroys Pompeii is a meet cute with an explosive fallout.
An exploration of ambition and class, autonomy and religion, survival and love, Vesuvius combines the romantic angst of They Both Die at the End and the blended magic and history of The Song of Achilles to show readers that it is never too late to change your fate—or change the world.
Clever thief Felix slips from city to city to survive the present and escape a past he can’t remember. When Felix steals a divine artifact—Mercury's helmet—from a temple in Pompeii, pieces of his forgotten past begin to surface.
Loren, an ambitious temple attendant, has seen Felix in his apocalyptic nightmares for years. The last thing Loren expects is for his dream to stumble headfirst through his temple doors, moments after an earthquake rocks the city.
When Felix shows Loren the helmet, Loren sees the world coming to an end. He knows they have mere days to uncover Felix’s ties to the relic and to Loren’s visions if they have any hope of saving the city. But Ancient Rome is ruled by bloody politics and unstoppable destinies, and now that Loren and Felix are intertwined, their lives aren’t all they risk losing. When all has turned to ash and rubble, the boys will have to piece together their fates to make it out of a burning city alive.
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I Am Awesome
(Hardcover)
Joedy Barnes; Illustrated by James Hislope
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R439
Discovery Miles 4 390
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WINNER YOUNG QUILLS AWARD BEST HISTORICAL FICTION 2021 12-year-old
Ada is a laundress of little consequence but the new castle
commander Brian de Berclay has his evil eye on her. Perhaps she
shouldn't have secretly fed the young prisoner in the tower. But
when the King of England crosses the border with an army of over
3000 strong, Ada, her friend Godfrey and all at Caerlaverock
suddenly find themselves under attack, with only 60 men for
protection. Soon, rocks and flaming arrows rain from the sky over
Castle Caerlaverock - and Ada has a dangerous choice to make.
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Thisbe
(Hardcover)
Thomas Richard Brown
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R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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