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Laura Secord

a story of courage
2002
Recounts the tale of Laura Secord's journey to tell the British about an American plot to conquer them during the war between Great Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century.

Arthur

2006
After replacing the three oldest members of their group with new recruits, the Time Soldiers enter the portal and travel to England in the Middle Ages, where they face a dragon and an angry knight as they help the future King Arthur to reach the sword in the stone.

Stradivari's singing violin

1992
A fictionalized childhood biography of the famous violinmaker.

The baseball card

2005
A young boy enjoys his first trip to a baseball game with his father as learns about one of the world's greatest players, Babe Ruth.

Hana in the time of the tulips

2004
A little girl seeks to regain her father's attention during the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland.

Joe Louis, my champion

2004
After listening to the radio broadcast of the heavyweight championship boxing fight of his hero, Joe Louis, a young African American boy realizes that he can emulate the boxer's persistence and strive to become whatever he wants to be.

The musician's daughter

2010
In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.

I, Judas

1977

Girl in a cage

2004
As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display.

The pathless woods

1981
A fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's 16th summer, during which love for his family, need for independence, and responsibility for decisions vie with each other, moving him from boyhood to manhood.

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