Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by Avi
Age: 9 +
Interests: history, medieval history, British history, adventure, action, violence, orphans, politics, religion
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
25 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in Books, books 9+ Tags: action, adventure, British history, history, medieval history, orphans, politics, religion, violence
The Matchlock Gun
23 May 2014 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: action, adventure, American history, family, history, violence, war
The Dark Frigate
30 Dec 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 12+ Tags: action, adventure, boats, British history, crime, history, orphans, pirates, travel, violence
The Dark Frigate
by Charles Boardman Hawes
Age: 12+
Interests: ships, pirates, adventure, action, violence, travel, history, British history More
The Otterbury Incident
19 Sep 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 10+ Tags: action, adventure, bad behavior, crime, detective, England, money, mystery, school, violence
The Otterbury Incident
by C. Day Lewis
illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
Age: 10+
Interests: mystery, crime, kid detectives, England, action, some violence, school, bad behaviour, money
A Land Divided
17 Sep 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 10+, Canadian books Tags: action, adventure, boats, Canada, Canadian history, country life, history, travel, war
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD WINNER – 1951
by John F. Hayes
illustrated by Fred J. Finley
Age: 10+ (independent reading)
Interests: Canadian history, war, adventure
The Trumpeter of Krakow
12 Sep 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 8+ Tags: action, adventure, cities, history, Krakow, medieval history, Poland, religion, scientists
The Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric P. Kelly
Age: 8+
Interests: medieval history, Poland, Krakow, adventure, action, religion, science
Black Ships Before Troy
12 Mar 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 10+, books 8+ Tags: action, adventure, boats, gods, Greece, history, Magic, morality, myths, romance, war
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER -1993
Rosemary Sutcliff, text
Alan Lee, illustrations
Frances Lincoln Limited: 1993
125 pages, 19 chapters
Age: 8+ (read to) ; 10+ (independent reading)
Interests: Greek history and mythology, war, romance, ethical dilemmas
Next: Sutcliffe’s The Wanderings of Odysseus, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
Also by this author: many historical fiction novels for young people, including The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles (3 books about the Romans in Britain, including Carnegie winner The Lantern Bearers), Warrior Scarlet (about life in the Bronze Age), Tristan and Iseult, The Shining Company (medieval Britain)
D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths
26 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: action, creation myth, dragons, gods, Magic, monsters, myths, Norse myths, seasons, violence, war
D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths
by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
New York Review Children’s Collection, 1967
155 pp.
age: 7
interests: mythology, magic, Scandinavia, Norse myths, gods, monsters, dragons, creation myths, war
also by these author/illustrators: Foxy, d’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, d’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls, Abraham Lincoln
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter
25 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 9+ Tags: action, adventure, American history, bad behavior, boats, British history, history, ocean, pirates, travel, violence
GREENAWAY AWARD WINNER – 2001
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter
Richard Platt, text
Chris Riddell, illustrations
Candlewick Press: Cambridge, MA, 2001
112 pp.
Age: 9+
Interests: pirates, history, sailing, ships, adventure, ocean
Also by this author and illustrator: Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess
Also by this illustrator: Ottoline and the Yellow Cat, Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver”
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
18 Oct 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+ Tags: action, adventure, cars, crime, family, Magic
by Ian Fleming
150 pages, 12 chapters
London, Penguin, 1964
Age: 6 +
Interests: cars, magic, adventure, action, family, cops and robbers, science/inventions
Next: see the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (story is much different)
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