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Adam of the Road  •  Elizabeth Janet Gray  •  Robert Lawson   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  An enduring classic about the adventures of a medieval English boy. (GBR336, $7.99)
 
 
Bard of Avon  •  Diane Stanley  •  Peter Vennema   • HISTORY • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)  •  An illustrated account of William Shakespeare's life and 16th century England, written for readers ages 6 and older. (GBR151, $7.99)
 
 
Beware, Princess Elizabeth  •  Carolyn Meyer   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  A young-adult novel about proud, lonely, endangered Princess Elizabeth Tudor. (GBR332, $6.95)
 
 
Boy, Tales of Childhood  •  Roald Dahl   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • YOUNG ADULTS  •  With his usual gift for storytelling, Dahl recalls his youthful misadventures, in boarding school, working as a chocolate tester and summering in Wales. Great family reading. (GBR183, $6.99)
 
 
Coram Boy  •  Jamila Gavin   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  This young adult novel offers a textured, nuanced, evocative story of the upper and lower classes in England in 1741, concentrating her focus on two 13-year-old boys and their intertwined ambitions. (GBR339, $7.95)
 
 
Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor  •  Kathryn Lasky   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  The fictitious diary of Elizabeth Tudor, written for young adults. (GBR331, $10.95)
 
 
England, A True Book  •  Michael Burgan   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)  •  An introduction to England and English history for readers 6 to 8. (GBR338, $6.95)
 
 
King of Shadows  •  Susan Cooper   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  A novel of time-travel, Shakespeare -- and the plague -- for kids. (GBR161, $5.99)
 
 
Knight's Castle  •  Edward Eager   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  A charming fantasy about four young Americans who are whisked back in time to Robin Hood's England. (GBR340, $6.99)
 
 
Madeline in London  •  Ludwig Bemelmans   • LITERATURE • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)  •  Miss Clavel, Madeline and her 11 classmates travel to London to cheer up their former neighbor, Pepito. (GBR152, $17.99)
 
 
Mary, Bloody Mary  •  Carolyn Meyer   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  A historical novel about Mary Tudor, the short-lived, embattled Catholic Tudor queen. (GBR333, $6.99)
 
 
The Midwife's Apprentice  •  Karen Cushman   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  A Newberry Award-winning tale of an orphan and a midwife in Medieval England. (GBR341, $5.99)
 
 
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver  •  E.L. Konigsburg   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  A marvelous young adult novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was queen of France and England successively, traveler to Constantinople, wife of a future saint, mother of Richard the Lionheart and for 15 years a prisoner of the English Crown. (GBR245, $5.99)
 
 
The Queen's Own Fool  •  Robert J. Harris  •  Jane Yolen   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  A novel about the life of Mary Queen of Scots, told from her jester's point of view. (SCT55, $7.99)
 
 
Ring of Bright Water  •  Gavin Maxwell   • NATURAL HISTORY • YOUNG ADULTS • OUT OF PRINT  •  This magical book has been treasured by generations of children and their parents. (SCT17, $13.00)
 
 
The Shakespeare Stealer  •  Gary Blackwood   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  Will orphan Widge obey his employer and steal Shakespeare's latest play? (GBR335, $6.99)
 
 
 




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