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Kidnapped

2005
Presents the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about a sixteen-year-old orphan who is kidnapped by his villainous uncle.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped

2006
A graphic novel adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped," the story of a sixteen-year-old boy who is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, and escapes to become involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

Queen of fashion

what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution
2006
Explores how Marie Antoinette's attempts to reshape the royal fashion of eighteenth-century France influenced her fate and the future of France.

A Tale of two cities

2004
Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

A culture of fact

England, 1550-1720
2000

Massacre of the Conestogas

on the trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County
2010
Looks at the two massacres of Conestoga Indians in December 1763 by the Paxton Boys of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

As various as their land

the everyday lives of eighteenth-century Americans
2000
Provides descriptions of the lives of "typical Americans" in the eighteenth century.

Kidnapped

1992
After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against British rule.

The Ravenmaster's secret

escape from the Tower of London
2005
The eleven-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there.

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.

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