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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Artemesia finally escapes the prim and proper world of finishing schools and sets out to win her mother's title as pirate queen of the seas until she meets her match against Goldie Girl, the treacherous captain of the pirate ship "Enemy."
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Artemesia, having escaped the hangman's noose and married her true love, finds life ashore a bit boring after her adventures as a pirate queen, and does not hesitate when the government of England, at war with France and Spain, offers her a ship in exchange for her service in harassing the enemy.
5) Bloodline
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, discovers that his mother is alive and he, himself, is a prince of the northern kingdom, but he has loyalties and loved ones in the south to whom he is compelled to return.
6) Hazel
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In the late seventeenth century, fifteen-year-old Kit, driven to desperation by the starvation of one brother and the mistreatment of his simple-minded twin, realizes his dream of becoming an apprentice in London but feels drawn by duty to return home to Essex.
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