historical fiction

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Puppet

a novel
2009
A fictionalized account of the last-recorded "blood libel" trial in Europe, which describes the experiences of Morris Scharf, a Jewish boy who was forced to testify against his community--including his own father--in support of a stereotype that Jews murder Christian children for their blood.

The parliament of blood

2008
In Victorian London, after discovering that vampires really do exist and plot to end the human race, friends George, Liz, and Eddie join Sir William Protheroe in an increasingly desperate effort to find ways to stop them from overthrowing Parliament and, eventually, taking over the world.

The convicts

2006
His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.

Quest

2008
Relates events of explorer Henry Hudson's final voyage in 1602 from four points of view, those of his seventeen-year-old son aboard ship, a younger son left in London, a crewmember, and a young English woman acting as a spy in Holland in hopes of restoring honor to her family's name.

A company of fools

2003
The life of Henri, a quiet, sickly boy who has grown up behind abbey walls, changes forever when he is befriended by Micah, a joyful, undisciplined street urchin who joins the choir at St. Luc's in 1348, just before France is stricken by the Plague.

Flames of the tiger

2003
Dieter grows to be a young man in Germany believing in the pronouncements and policies of Hitler and the Nazis, but as World War II intensifies and he is called upon to fight for his country, Dieter begins to question everything he once believed.

The white rider

a Tom Marlowe adventure
2005
Tom Marlowe and his mentor, Dr. Harker, investigate who is behind the mysterious crimes of The White Rider in 1716 London.

Montmorency on the rocks

doctor, aristocrat, murderer?
2005
In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solving the mystery of the poisoning of a village of Scottish children.

Wintering

1999
In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Fur Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns from both the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share.

Billy the Kid

a novel
2005
Young William Bonney is talked into committing his first train robbery, unaware that his cousin and best friend, Willie Monroe, is now sheriff of the nearest town, and that his fellow robbers are already wanted in four states.

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