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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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Barry Lopez

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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ENGLAND

For Kids

Bard of Avon


by Diane Stanley | Peter Vennema

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 48 PAGES
  • 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)

James Herriot's Treasury for Children


by James Herriot | Peter Barrett | Ruth Brown

  • LITERATURE
  • 1992
  • HARD COVER
  • 256 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

From Moses the Kitten to Smudge the Little Lost Lamb, all of the beloved veterinarian's children's stories are collected in this illustrated volume. (GBR390, $19.95)

Lassie Come-Home

Lassie Come-Home


by Rosemary Wells | Susan Jeffers | Eric Knight

  • LITERATURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 48 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

An award-winning, illustrated heart-warmer about a collie whose is taken away from his young owner, only to find its way home through hundreds of miles of Scottish and English countryside. (GBR392, $8.95)

Madeline in London

Madeline in London


by Ludwig Bemelmans

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 64 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

Miss Clavel, Madeline and her 11 classmates travel to London to cheer up their former neighbor, Pepito. For kids ages 4-8. (GBR152, $7.99)

This is London


by Miroslav Sasek

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 64 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

Sasek's wonderful portrait of London circa 1958 depicts the tube, Piccadilly Circus and other famed attractions through bright, stylized illustrations. For children ages 4-8. (GBR529, $17.95)

Adam of the Road

Adam of the Road


by Elizabeth Janet Gray | Robert Lawson

  • LITERATURE
  • 1987
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A Newberry-winning classic about the adventures of a medieval minstrel's son who loses his way on the highways and byways of 13th-century England. (GBR336, $7.99)

An Episode of Sparrows

An Episode of Sparrows


by Rumer Godden

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 256 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

When two poor children "steal" a bit of a defunct churchyard to make a garden in postwar London, the neighbors get involved for good and ill. As with all Godden's books, this is a tender, emotionally attuned portrait of a place and time. (GBR688, $18.95)

Arthur of Albion


by John Matthews

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 94 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Matthews weaves archaeology and historical research in this spirited retelling of the legends, people and tales of Camelot for ages 8-10. (GBR846, $24.99)

Crispin, The Cross of Lead

Crispin, The Cross of Lead


by Avi

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 310 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

13-year-old Crispin must flee his manor after a price is put on his head in this suspenseful, Newberry-winning tale set in medieval England. (GBR528, $7.99)

Crispin: At the Edge of the World


by Avi

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 234 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The sequel to Avi's Newberry-winning Crispin: The Cross of Lead, this riveting adventure continues the story of Crispin and Bear in the tough world of 14th century England. (GBR695, $6.99)

Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor

Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor


by Kathryn Lasky

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • HARD COVER
  • 240 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
  • OUT OF PRINT

The fictitious Royal Diary of 11-year-old Elizabeth Tudor is full of longing, intrigue and sibling rivalry -- a gripping introduction to the Virgin Queen for middle readers. (GBR331, $10.95)

England


by Claire Throp

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 48 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

One in the illustrated and informative Countries Around the World series, geared for ages 8-11. (GRB26, $8.99)

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, Voices from a Medieval Village


by Laura Amy Schlitz

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 84 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Inspired by an illuminated poem from 13th-century Germany, this witty, historically accurate collection of prose and poems -- winner of the 2008 Newbery Medal -- forms an exquisite bridge to the people and places of medieval England. With full-color illustrations. (GBR854, $6.99)

Hello Britain! Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Your Holiday in Britain

Hello Britain! Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Your Holiday in Britain


by Rebecca Welby

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2006
  • FLEXI-BOUND
  • 60 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The sturdy covers of this interactive book are packed with fun activities for children aged 7 to 12. With puzzles, maps and games, Hola Britain! is sure to reward the natural curiosity of younger travelers, and provide plenty of fun for the whole family. (GBR669, $16.95)

King of Shadows

King of Shadows


by Susan Cooper

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 186 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A novel of time-travel, Shakespeare -- and the plague -- for kids ages 10-12. (GBR161, $5.99)

Knight's Castle


by Edward Eager

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 198 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

When a toy soldier comes to life, four young Americans are whisked back in time to Robin Hood's England in this charming and good-humored fantasy. (GBR340, $6.99)

Knights & Castles, 50 Hands-On Activities to Experience the Middle Ages


by Avery Hart

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 96 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This Kaleidoscope Kids Book engages youngsters (grades 4-6) with activities, crafts and projects. (EUR338, $12.95)

Medieval Life Workbook

Medieval Life Workbook


by Susan Nicholson

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 46 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This colorful activity book (with stickers!) introduces middle readers to the history, geography and culture of Medieval Europe. (EUR333, $9.99)

Robin Hood, Read and Listen


by Neil Philip

  • HISTORY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 64 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The tale of Robin Hood and his band of followers for grades 3-5, noteworthy for its visual approach and good historical background. (GBR479, $9.99)

Shakespeare for Kids, His Life and Times: 21 Activities


by Colleen Aagesen

  • HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 149 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Geared to ages 9-11, this fun activity book presents the life and works of Shakespeare and introduces the Elizibethan era with 21 activities, such as making costumes, staging swordplay, and making and using a quill pen. (GRB28, $17.95)

The Ancient Celts


by Patricia Calvert

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 112 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This illustrated survey in Scholastic's History of the Ancient World series introduces ages 9-11 to the warriors, farmers and royalty of the ancient Celts. With excellent photographs of dig sites, jewelry, weapons and glasswork. (GBR845, $9.95)

The Big Six


by Arthur Ransome

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 356 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This sweet novel follows the further adventures of the Coot Club in the Norfolk Broads. (GBR485, $14.95)

The Coot Club


by Arthur Ransome

  • LITERATURE
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 350 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

It's summertime in the English countryside, and the young members of the Coot Club Bird Protection Society band together to solve a mystery among the boats on the Norfolk Broads. (GBR484, $14.95)

The Eagle of the Ninth


by Rosemary Sutcliff

  • LITERATURE
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 291 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Hoping to recover the standard of his father's lost legion and prove himself worthy of commanding troops, Marcus ventures into Caledonia in year 125. (GBR556, $7.95)

The Medieval World

The Medieval World


by Philip Steele

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 95 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This rousing and colorfully illustrated tale for ages 7 to 10 brings to life the chivalry, battles and sieges and politics of Medieval Europe. (EUR256, $12.95)

The Midwife's Apprentice

The Midwife's Apprentice


by Karen Cushman

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 122 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The 1996 Newbery Medal winner, this novel geared for 8-12 year olds recounts the apprenticeship of a waif named Brat, who learns to be a midwife in 14th-century England. Short, funny and atmospheric. (GBR341, $5.99)

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden


by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Tasha Tudor

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 358 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Sullen orphan Mary's life changes when she discovers an abandoned garden hidden on her uncle's staid Yorkshire estate. As she nurses the garden and her sickly cousin back to health, she herself begins to blossom. (GBR391, $16.00)

The Shakespeare Stealer

The Shakespeare Stealer


by Gary Blackwood

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Young orphan Widge is hired to infiltrate the Globe and steal Shakespeare's latest play for another acting troupe. But will the boy betray his new friends or disobey his employer? (GBR335, $6.99)

The Snow Goose

The Snow Goose


by Paul Gallico

  • LITERATURE
  • 1941
  • HARD COVER
  • 60 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A handsome hardcover edition of Gallico's poignant tale of innocence and longing set in Word War II England. (BRD20, $19.95)

The Usborne Official Knight's Handbook

The Usborne Official Knight's Handbook


by Sam Taplin

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 80 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A humorous but factual account of how to become a knight, including where to shop, what chivalric rules must be followed and battle tactics. For middle readers. (EUR257, $12.99)

The Wind in the Willows


by Kenneth Grahame | Ernest H. Shepard

  • LITERATURE
  • 1983
  • HARD COVER
  • 224 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A 75th anniversary edition of Grahame's enduring tale of fun, friendship and adventure, starring Rat, Toad, Mole, and Badger. (GBR481, $21.00)

We Didn't Meant to Go to Sea

We Didn't Meant to Go to Sea


by Arthur Ransome

  • LITERATURE
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 344 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

In this seventh installment in the Swallows and Amazon series, our resourceful young heroes find themselves adrift on a small boat in the the stormy North Sea. (GBR483, $14.95)

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver


by E.L. Konigsburg

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 208 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

A marvelous fictionalized portrait of Eleanor of Aquitaine, 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. For young adults. (GBR245, $5.99)

Beware, Princess Elizabeth

Beware, Princess Elizabeth


by Carolyn Meyer

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

An acclaimed young-adult novel, one in a series of Young Royals, in which Henry VIII is recently dead and young Elizabeth endures the tumultuous reigns of her brother Edward and sister Mary before ascending the throne herself. (GBR332, $6.99)

Coram Boy


by Jamila Gavin

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES
  • 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)

I Capture the Castle

I Capture the Castle


by Dodie Smith

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

A novel about a 17-year-old girl who spends six months in an English castle writing in a journal, until she has "captured" the castle with words. (GBR497, $14.99)

Loving Will Shakespeare


by Carolyn Meyer

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

Popular young adult author Carolyn Meyer fictionalizes the romance between Anne Hathaway and the young William Shakespeare in this novel for teens. (GBR668, $6.95)

Mary, Bloody Mary

Mary, Bloody Mary


by Carolyn Meyer

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

This sympathetic portrait brings to life Mary Tudor's childhood and difficult teen years, when her beloved father, Henry VIII, spurns Mary's mother for the bewitching Anne Boleyn -- and Mary goes from riches to rags, becoming the embittered woman who would later be known as Bloody Queen Mary. Ages 11 and up. (GBR333, $6.99)

Once and Future King

Once and Future King


by T. H. White

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 640 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

White's delightful reimagining of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur introduces the search for the Holy Grail, creation of the Round Table and all the romance, wizardry and war of Camelot for the whole family. (GBR844, $25.00)

The King's Shadow


by Elizabeth Alder

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 259 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

In this novel for ages 12-14, a young Welsh serf chronicles his exciting journeys as companion to Earl Harold of Wessex, future King of England, culimating with the Battle of Hastings. (GBR935, $6.50)

The Lost Baron, A Story of England in the Year 1200


by Allen French | Andew Wyeth

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 297 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

The classic tale of royal treachery and honor set in medieval Cornwall. 13-year-old Martin, a page and squire to Baron Eric, is tangled in a web of intrigue when the Baron mysteriously disappears. (GBR703, $15.95)

The Queen's Own Fool


by Robert J. Harris | Jane Yolen

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

This excellent historical novel relates the life of Mary Queen of Scots as witnessed by her jester, a spunky orphan named Nicola. (SCT55, $7.99)

Westminster Abby

Westminster Abby


by Micol Ostow

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

16 year-old Abby is sent to study in London as a punishment after her parents discover she lied to them about a boy. The first book in the SASS (Students Across the Seven Seas) series. (GBR670, $6.99)

A Street Through Time

A Street Through Time


by Anne Millard | Steve Noon

  • HISTORY
  • 1993
  • HARD COVER
  • 32 PAGES
  • FAMILY

This oversize book depicts the changes on an English riverbank from Stone age camp to modern city. (GBR487, $19.99)

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland


by Robert Sabuda

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • HARD COVER
  • 12 PAGES
  • FAMILY

Working his own magic, paper-fold master Sabuda unfurls the classic tale in a series of six stunning double-page animated scenes. Each double-page spread, adapted from Tenniel's original illustrations, thrills with color, texture, and, most surprising of all, height. (GBR426, $29.99)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass


by Lewis Carroll | Roger Lancelyn Green | John Tenniel

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 278 PAGES
  • FAMILY

The enduring children's classic, with Tenniel's original illustrations. (GBR449, $8.95)

Eyewitness Medieval Life

Eyewitness Medieval Life


by Andrew Langley

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 72 PAGES
  • FAMILY

A visually rich survey for ages 9-12, this colorful book introduces the art and architecture, people and culture of Medieval Europe. (EUR334, $19.99)

Living in the Middle Ages


by Norman Bancroft Hunt

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 96 PAGES
  • FAMILY

An illustrated, authoritative look at daily life in medieval Europe for grades 9-12, with examples mostly drawn from England in 1100 and 1450. (EUR255, $35.00)

The Adventures of Robin Hood


by Roger Lancelyn Green

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • FAMILY

One of the many versions of the Robin Hood legend, a rip-roaring series of medieval adventures set in the forest surrounding Nottingham. (GBR393, $4.99)

The Tailor of Gloucester


by Beatrix Potter

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • HARD COVER
  • 64 PAGES
  • FAMILY

Potter's delightful tale of an ailing English tailor and the mice that help him sew a waiscoat for the Mayor of Gloucester, featuring the author's original watercolors. (GBR466, $6.99)

The Wind in the Willows


by Kenneth Grahame | Ernest H. Shepard

  • LITERATURE
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES
  • FAMILY

Rat, Mole, Badger and, of course, exasperating Mr. Toad, all star in Grahame's beloved adventures set along a riverbank in the English countryside. (GBR457, $6.99)

This Is Britain

This Is Britain


by Miroslav Sasek

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 60 PAGES
  • FAMILY

This is Britain, an enduring classic first published in 1974, shows off the nation's many facets, from mysterious Stonehenge and the White Cliffs of Dover to the country's many palaces and castles. (GBR753, $17.95)

 

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