HISTORICAL FICTION Longwood High School Library Global 9 (Up to 1500)
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HISTORICAL FICTION Longwood High School Library Global 9 (Up to 1500) 2009 *Crispin: At the Edge of the World by Judge Dee At Work by Robert Van Gulik, Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale by Donna Jo Avi, 2006. 1992. Napoli, 2007. Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Presents eight short stories by Robert van Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to Gulik--an authority on Chinese history and is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, culture--in which seventh-century Chinese not only learns how to survive but to where they perform a musical juggling act detective Judge Dee solves crimes. (FIC challenge some of the brutality of her and bond as a family after befriending a GUL) captors, who are fascinated by her apparent disfigured girl. (FIC AVI) muteness and the possibility that she is By Right of Conquest, or, With Cortez in enchanted. (FIC NAP) Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw, 2001. Mexico by G.A. Henty, 1996. Tells the early life of the ancient Greek A novel about the Spanish conquest, under A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh, mathematician Archimedes from his Cortez, of the Aztec people of Mexico. (FIC 1983. education at Ptolemy's Museum in HEN) Mall Percival tells how the plague came to Alexandria to his home in Syracuse, as he her Derbyshire village of Eyam in the year gains fame and fortune as a royal Incantation by Alice Hoffman, 2007. 1665, how the villagers determined to isolate engineer. (FIC BRA) During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year- themselves to prevent further spread of the old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers disease, and how three-fourths of them died Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, 1978. her family's true Jewish identity, and when before the end of the following year. (FIC In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best PAT) young Marco Polo. Marco Polo diverts the friend, the consequences are tragic. (PB FIC emperor with tales of cities he has HOF) *The Jester by James Patterson 2004. seen. (FIC CAL) An innkeeper just back from the First Pagan’s Scribe by Catherine Jinks, 2006. Crusade disguises himself as a court jester to Voyage With Jason by Ken Catran, 2001. In France in 1209, Pagan, now an save his wife, who has been abducted by an Retells the story of Jason and his search for archdeacon, takes on a new scribe named evil duke searching for a holy relic. (PB FIC the golden fleece through the eyes of Pylos, Isidore, a fifteen-year-old epileptic and an PAT ) a young ship's boy on the super-galley orphan, and together they try to survive the "Argos." (PB FIC CAT) siege of Carcassonne. (FIC JIN) The House on Hound Hill by Maggie Prince, 1998. King of the Middle March by Kevin Silk Road: a Novel of Eighth-Century Soon after she, her mother, and her younger Crossley-Holland, 2004. China by Jeanne Larsen, 1989. brother move into an old house on what was Arthur de Caldicot, on his way to becoming In the eighth century, Greenpearl, the once known as Beggarsgate, Emily begins to a man, witnesses the horrors of the Fourth daughter of a powerful Chinese general is have terrifyingly real glimpses of scenes of Crusade in Venice and Zara, as well as the kidnapped by Tibetan raiders. She travels seventeenth-century London devastated by downfall of King Arthur's court, in his the Silk Route having magical encounters the plague. (FIC PRI) seeing stone. (FIC CRO) brought about by the interference of a heavenly bureaucrat. (FIC LAR) When the Eagle Hunts by Simon Scarrow, The Talisman by Lynne Ewing, 2003. 2004. As Maggie reflects on the difficulty she will Pharaoh’s Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Presents an historical fiction about the 44 have with her final duty as mentor to the Egypt by Julius Lester. AD Roman campaign against Great Britain daughters of Moon Goddess Selene, she A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in where Centurions Macro and Cato attempt to recalls her first battles with the evil Atrox, which an Egyptian princess rescues a rescue the wife and children of General two thousand years earlier when she was a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his Plautius from their Druid captors before they youth in Athens. (FIC EWI) people while his sister finds her true self as a are sacrificed to the dark gods. (FIC SCA) priestess to the Egyptian gods. (FIC LES) Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher, 1998. The Eagle’s Conquest by Simon Scarrow, When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled Demon of the Air by Simon Levack. 2002. girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Montezuma and Black Feathers charge When the centurion Lucius Cornelius Macro Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories Yaotl, a disgraced priest now the minister's arrives on the shores of Britain to take part in which will save the queen's life. (FIC FLE) slave, with discovering the reason why a the Emperor Claudius's invasion in the sacrificial victim suddenly jumped to his summer of A.D. 43, he learns of an Troy by Adèle Geras, 2002. death while making an ominous prophecy assassination attempt aimed at Cornelius and The last weeks of the Trojan War find the two years before the arrival of the Spanish he must find a way to prevent it before their women sick of tending the wounded, men conquistadors. (FIC LEV) victory turns to tragedy. (FIC SCA) tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses trying to find ways to stir things up. (FIC GER) Morgain’s Revenge by Laura Anne Gilman, Escape From Egypt: A Novel by Sonia Peony In Love: A Novel by Lisa See, 2007. 2006. Levitin. In post-Ming dynasty China, Peony, a young The quest for the Holy Grail is postponed When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to girl betrothed to someone she has never met, again when Ailis is kidnapped by Morgain the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew slave, observes a handsome man while hidden from the sorceress, and her friends, Newt and finds his life changed by his growing faith in view at a performance of the opera "The Gerard, must leave the court of King Arthur God and his attraction to the half-Egyptian, Peony Pavilion"--a work that has compelled seeking to rescue her, accompanied by a half-Syrian Jennat. (FIC LEV) young Chinese women to starve themselves grumbling knight. (FIC GIL) to death--and, dead at sixteen, begins a *Bound by Donna Jo Napoli, 2004. transformative journey as a "hungry Green Jasper by K.M. Grant, 2006. In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, ghost." (FIC SEE) Having returned to a politically unstable fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing England after the Crusades, brothers Will endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her Spider’s Voice by Gloria Skurzynski, 1999. and Gavin--with the help of the red horse stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's Because he is a young mute person who can Hosanna--attempt to rescue their friend Ellie feet so that she alone might marry hear, Aran becomes involved in the who is being held prisoner by an enemy of well. (FIC NAP) adventures of Eloise and Abelard, France's King Richard I. (FIC GRA) most famous lovers, who lived during the * Breath by Donna Jo Napoli, 2003. twelfth century. (FIC SKU) Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told by a boy who is too ill to keep up when Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe, 1989. a piper spirits away the healthy children of a Latro does not have memories of the past, plague-ridden town after being cheated out but can talk to supernatural beings. He of full payment for ridding Hamelin of becomes involved in high level intrigue in rats. (FIC NAP) the rivalry between Athens and Sparta. (FIC WOL) .