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Marie Antoinette, princess of Versailles
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Kathryn Lasky |
A book about Queen Marie Antoinette's youth written in diary format. Makes you feel very close to little Antonia as she has doubts, and excitement, too about her upcoming marrige and journey to Franc… |
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The death-defying Pepper Roux
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Geraldine McCaughrean |
Pepper's fourteenth birthday is a momentous one.It's the day he's supposed to die.Everyone seems resigned to it—even Pepper, although he would much prefer to live. But can you sidestep Fate? Jump sid… |
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Notre-Dame de Paris
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Victor Hugo |
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy … |
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Alexandre Dumas's The three musketeers
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Jan Fields |
In seventeenth-century France, young d'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen. |
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Grave Mercy
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Robin LaFevers |
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the g… |
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Luces de Septiembre
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
"When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. The… |
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The hunchback of Notre-Dame
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Victor Hugo |
A tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed. |
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Pagan's scribe
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Catherine Jinks |
Pagan's Scribe, the fourth novel in the brilliant Pagan Chronicles, is an engrossing story played out during one of the most brutal religious wars in history. 'Brimming with wit and fascinating detai… |
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Pagan's Vows
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Catherine Jinks |
Pagan's Vows is an engrossing, marvellously written medieval thriller, a brilliant sequel to Pagan's Crusade and Pagan in Exile. 'The Pagan Chronicles are a kind of medieval version of Tin Tin...told… |
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Day of vengeance
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Johnny O'Brien |
Teenage time-traveller Jack Christie is back, this time with a mission to stop World War Two from going nuclear. Jack travels to a crucial turning point in history where the Nazis threaten world domi… |
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Astérix chez les Bretons
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René Goscinny,Albert Uderzo |
Asterix and Obelix, warriors of the last village in Gaul still free after the Roman invasion, set out on a mission to deliver a barrel of their druid's famous magic potion to help Asterix's cousin in… |
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Le Devin
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René Goscinny,Albert Uderzo |
During a violent thunderstorm, a strange fortune-telling soothsayer turns up in the Gaulish village, drawing Asterix's friends into his web of enticing deception. In the midst of general confusion, A… |
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Curse of a Winter Moon
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Mary Casanova |
Twelve-year-old Marius promised his mother on her deathbed six years earlier that he would look after his little brother, Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre carries the curse of the loup-garou, the werewolf be… |
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Elvina's mirror
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Sylvie Weil |
In 1097 Troyes, France, fourteen-year-old Elvina reaches out to a shunned family of German Jews, eventually drawing her grandfather, Bible and Talmud scholar Solomon ben Isaac, into helping her new f… |
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Touch wood
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Renée Roth-Hano,Renée Roth-Hano |
In this autobiographical novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Renée, a young Jewish girl, and her family flee their home in Alsace and live a precarious existence in Paris until Renée and her sister … |
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Trail of fate
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Michael P. Spradlin |
In the Middle Ages, young squire Tristan of the Knights Templar, King's Archer Robard, and Muslim assassin Maryam work together to protect the Holy Grail as they travel across France toward England, … |
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Warrior girl
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Pauline Chandler |
Although surrounded by treachery, Mariane, a young mute, battles alongside her cousin, Joan of Arc, for the liberation of France from the English. |
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The road to vengeance
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Judson Roberts |
Hafdan's training as a Viking warrior leads him to fight in bloody battles between nations--and gives him conflicted feelings about his killer instincts. |
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Rashi's daughter
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Maggie Anton |
In eleventh-century Troyes, France, Joheved, the eldest daughter of a respected teacher and Bible commentator, studies Talmud after her days of helping run a household and the family winemaking busin… |
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