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Author
Series
Hoofbeats volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
While her father is away fighting the Normans and other Irish clans, nine-year-old Lara works hard to help harvest food and also cares for the pregnant gray mare that she loves.
Author
Series
Hoofbeats volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Lara faces many obstacles in her attempts to rescue Dannsair from the Baron of Athenry.
5) Susannah
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, fourteen-year-old Susannah is taken by her father to live in a Shaker community in Ohio, but she does not find the same sense of peace there that he does.
7) Hearts
Author
Series
Brides for all seasons volume 4
Publisher
Sonnet Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Mark of Solomon volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After losing his arm in a lion attack, Telemakos--the half-Ethiopian grandson of King Arthur--takes care of his infant sister and lives with Abreha, a family enemy turned friend who Telemakos was warned to watch carefully.
Author
Series
Hoofbeats volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Captured by members of another Irish clan, Lara continues to protect the young filly, Dannsair, and ponders how they might escape together.
10) Wolf brother
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father -- to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Grace Forcier and her friend Arthur, taken out of school and put to work in a Vermont textile mill in 1910, are championed by their teacher who urges them to write the National Child Labor Committee, an action only Grace seems to realize will have serious repercussions.
14) Spirit Walker
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When a deadly illness begins to afflict the clans, twelve-year-old Torak, with help from Renn and Wolf, embarks on a journey to find a cure.
15) Alec's primer
Author
Publisher
Distributed by University Press of New England
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.
Author
Series
Hoofbeats volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After returning from captivity and being traded to Norman invaders, Lara and her horse escape and find refuge with nuns whom she teaches to breed horses.
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