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Mustang; wild spirit of the West

1966
The author tells, from the point of view of Annie Johnston, the story of this Nevada woman and her fight to protect the American wild horse, the mustang, from extinction because of professional killers who chased the horses for use in dog food.

The diary of Emily Dickinson

1993
When Emily Dickinson's house is being restored in 1916, a worker discovers her secret diary, which he keeps to himself until now.

The prince and the pauper

a tale for young people of all ages
1988
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

The acts of King Arthur and his noble knights

from the Winchester mss. of Thomas Malory and other sources
1976
A retelling, in modern language, of Malory's tales of King Arthur and his knights.

Funeral games

2002
When Alexander the Great sinks into a coma without having named his successor, the battle for his throne begins.

The enemies of Jupiter

2009
Jonathan and his friends are called to Rome by the emperor in the winter of 80 A.D. to find the new Prometheus believed to have brought an epidemic to the city, but Jonathan, obsessed with reuniting his parents, makes some unwise--and life-threatening--choices.

The ancient ocean blues

2008
Teenage Marcus Oppius Sabinus is recruited by his cousin to work on Julius Caesar's political campaign, but after he shows promise in the art of bribery, Marcus is sent to Greece on a dangerous mission to spy on and sabotage Cicero's supporters.

Dead reckoning

a pirate voyage with Captain Drake
2007
Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the "Golden Hind"--the ship of his cousin, explorer and pirate Francis Drake--on its three-year circumnavigation of the world.

Gods and generals

1998
Traces the lives, passions, and careers of Civil War leaders Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee, who all meet on the same battlefield for the first time at Fredericksburg, where they experience the battle from four very different points of view.

Miss Potter

a novel
2006
A novelization of the new movie about children's novelist Beatrix Potter.

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