Kathryn Lasky
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Forced to abandon Princess Elizabeth when Mary ascends the English throne, Rose sews elaborate gowns for Mary's upcoming coronation before violently escalating attacks on Protestants compel her to escape into her own time.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Williamina Fleming was little she was curious, and her childhood fascination with light inspired her life's work. Mina became an astronomer in a time when women were discouraged from even looking through telescopes. Yet Mina believed that the universe, with its billions of stars, was a riddle--and she wanted to help solve it. Mina ultimately helped to create a map of the universe that paved the way for astronomers. Newbery Honor-winning...
85) Born to rule
Author
Series
Camp Princess volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When princesses from some of the most splendid kingdoms of the world gather at summer camp, a special bond forms between the girls of the South Turret and aids them in laying to rest a mystery while working to complete a long-lost tapestry.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1903, ten-year-old Sofia and her family begin their life in America in Boston, where her father works in a grocery, her mother sells pasta, and she goes to school while trying to stay in touch with her old friend Maureen. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
93) Grace the pirate
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Grace O'Malley finds excitement and danger when she defies Irish tradition and goes off to sea with her father, a trader and pirate.
94) Tumble bunnies
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Feeling inept in the team sports scheduled for his school's Gymboree, Clyde the rabbit develops his own event, a freestyle tumbling routine with a dazzling move called the "twirly burly."
98) The searchers
Author
Series
Secret of Glendunny volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When swan Elsinore, the beavers' beloved mother figure, is kidnapped by dark forces, Dunwattle and Locksley set out to find her, but little do they know, they have a much larger expedition in store when they discover other persecuted animals being held against their will for nefarious purposes.
99) The portal
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog. But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. The one place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's Tudor-style greenhouse. But one night, she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She climbs a ladder to investigate......
100) La captura
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Pushed from his nest, an owlet is captured by agents of the mysterious and ill-intentioned St. Aegolius Academy, where orphaned owls are brainwashed and enlisted in an evil attempt to take over the owl world.