1603-1714, stuarts

Discusses some of the major issues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the effect King James I of Great Britain had on these issues both during his reign and after.

Thrown out of her home by her stepmother in 1670, fifteen-year-old Eliza Rose becomes a companion of actress Nelly Gwyn, a mistress of Charles II, and learns a surprising truth about her parentage.

Presents stories of historical characters and events that contributed to the shaping of England from 1387 to 1689.

Traces the transformation that occurred in England over the course of the seventeenth century in all areas of life, including economics, science, the arts, religion, and politics, moving the country from the status of a second-class power to world leader.

Covers political and religious development as well as economic, social and intellectual history during the reign of the Stuarts in England from 1603-1714.

Sir Robert Cecil, an advisor to King James I in 1603, confides in his gardener John Tradescant about the political and social changes that he has to face in the King's court.

In June 1665, excited at the prospect of coming to London to work at her sister Sarah's candy shop, teenaged Hannah is unconcerned about rumors of Plague until, as the hot summer advances and increasing numbers of people succumb to the disease, she and Sarah find themselves trapped in the city with no means of escape.

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Hannah and Sarah escape London, leaving behind plague and death as well as their sweets shop, and when it is safe, Hannah and her younger sister Anne return, only to face the city's Great Fire of 1666.

In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.