Deborah Noyes
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old May's trip to Florence with family friends takes a frightening turn when she wakes in the middle of the night to find her ghostly twin standing at the foot of her bed. The ghostly twin wants her to come to Old Florence, to the year 1348. But the Black Death is sweeping Old Florence and the ghost has vowed to save herself by escaping into the future. May is in a fight for her life.
2) Captivity
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first [plot line] centers upon the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly (but artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: the American Spiritualists. Their followers included the famous and the rich, and their effect on American spirituality lasted a full generation....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
In long-ago China, as a young princess prepares to leave her parents' kingdom to travel to far-off Khotan where she is to marry the king, she decides to surreptitiously take with her a precious reminder of home.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Bulu describes events surrounding the arrival of two wolf girls at her orphanage, including attempts to teach them to eat properly and to speak.
Author
Language
English
Description
At the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, we know that Pearl, the elf-child daughter of Hester Prynne, is somewhere in Europe, comfortable, well set, a mother herself now. But it could not have been easy for her to arrive at such a place, when she begins life as the bastard child of a woman publicly humiliated, again and again, in an unrelentingly judgmental Puritan world. With a brilliant and authentic sense of that time...
7) Ten days a madwoman: the daring life and turbulent times of the original "girl" reporter Nellie Bly
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist whose showy but substantive stunts skyrocketed her to fame"-- Provided by publisher.
9) The magician and the spirits: Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead
Author
Publisher
Viking, Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Famed illusionist Harry Houdini embarks on a quest to investigate spiritual phenomena and the possibility of communication with those on the "other side.""-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of the feverish race between two ... competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover [dinosaur] fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a 'war' waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A graphic-novel telling of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, creating a narrative out of the historical context and what we can imagine of those accused"-- Provided by publisher
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 241 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on dark fantasy and the fairy tale as well as horror and wild humor, ten acclaimed authors pay homage to the gothic tale in wide-ranging stories of the supernatural and surreal.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[38] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inside every acrostic is a secret message, often lurking in the first letter of each line (read top to bottom). But look out! These acrostics not only follow their subjects to Africa, but they also take the form to a whole new level. Here you'll find the elusive double acrostic (in which the first and last letters of each line spell a message), the cross acrostic (in which the message is read diagonally), and the multiple acrostic (see it to believe...
