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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Laura Amy Schlitz
Winner of the 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Newbery Medalist Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early 20th-century America in a moving yet comedic tour…
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Told in multiple voices, after a binding curse is put on the ghost of a young, privileged girl killed by lightning, she comes to the aid of an enslaved boy…
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Filled with tantalizing details of turn-of-the-century spiritualism, this lively historical novel follows a feisty orphan after she’s taken in by a band of phony spiritualists. Maud is drawn deeper into…
A Newbery Medalist ( Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village ) brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller–an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would do Charles…
A 2013 Newbery Honor Winner. Newbery Medalist (Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village) brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller–an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would…
Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating 22 unforgettable characters. Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons–in these pages, readers will meet them…
For use in schools and libraries only. An engaging, illustrated biography of Heinrich Schliemann–a 19th-century German romantic who most believe found the ancient city of Troy–reveals him to be a…
Inspired by an illuminated poem from 13th-century Germany, this witty, historically accurate collection–the winner of the 2008 Newbery Medal–forms an exquisite bridge to the people and places of medieval England…
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled princess a day off – and a deliciously wicked crocodile a day on.
Princess Cora is bored with her routines of life, so she asks her fairy godmother to help.
Newbery Medal winner Schlitz and world-renowned illustrator and miniaturist Barrett venture into the realm of the illustrated classic–a classic entirely and exquisitely of their making, and a magnificent adventure. Illustrations.
