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The Hollow

2010
High-school junior Abbey struggles with the loss of her best friend Kristen, who vanished on a legendary bridge, but her grief is eased by Caspian, an attractive and mysterious stranger she meets in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

ArchEnemy

2010
The people of Wonderland lose their creative drive when the power of the Heart Crystal is depleted, and when even Queen Alyss loses her powers, everybody takes comfort in the fact that Redd Heart is similarly disabled.

Loving Will Shakespeare

2008
Anne Hathaway has always dreamed of leaving the small cottage where she and her siblings live with their critical stepmother, and when Will Shakespeare returns home and begins showing a serious interest in her, Anne must decide whether to follow her heart or play by the rules.

Leonardo's shadow, or, My astonishing life as Leonardo da Vinci's servant

2008
Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting, "The Last Supper," while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.

The queen's soprano

2007
Seventeen year-old Angelica Voglia lives in seventeenth-century Rome and has the voice of an angel, but because the pope forbids women to sing in public, she must escape to Queen Christina's palace to become a court singer.

Angelmonster

2006
Fictionalizes the passionate eight-year relationship of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, dramatizing the genesis of her classic horror novel, "Frankenstein.".

Saint Francis and the Christmas donkey

2000
Saint Francis, who loves all animals, explains to a sullen donkey why his kind have always had to work hard, but also tells him of a donkey's role in the first Christmas.

Horses with wings

1993
During the Franco-Prussian War, L?on Gambetta escapes from Paris in a balloon and organizes an army in the French countryside to fight against the Prussian invaders.

After the flood

1994
After surviving the Flood, Noah and his family settle in a sheltered valley with the animals they have saved and begin the glorious experience of repopulating the Earth.

Monkey town

a story of the Scopes trial
2006
When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.

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