Historical Literature For Teens

Sent to unknown lands on a mission to save Dalriya, Sanc must find his feet fast if he is to survive. As he discovers others who share his powers, he becomes embroiled in the conflicts of this new world. What is Sanc prepared to do, to defeat Ezenachi? Back in Essenberg, Liesel is still at the mercy of her brother and the witch, Inge. As the Empire slides towards civil war, she must find a way to change the course of events. Before it's too late.

It is 1942, and 14-year-old Jill is spending the summer with her grandmother in the coastal village of Winter Haven, Maine. The U.S. is at war, and Jill hears rumors that German submarines - U-boats - are just off shore. Trying to ignore her fears, Jill notices suspicious activities in town. When she finds a carrier pigeon bearing the message Sonnabend iv, she's sure that something is wrong. The secret she uncovers will have her running for her life.

Isabel es una joven reina que se siente traicionada por todos los que la rodean. Lilia es ladrona de tumbas cuyo único sueño es marcharse lejos de casa de su tío, con quien vive míseramente desde que murieron sus padres. Fidel es un huérfano a quien acosa cada noche el fantasma de su doble, sin que él comprenda por qué. Unidos por el azar, los tres se embarcarán en una trama inquietante en la que las intrigas de poder, las sociedades secretas y algunos de los personajes más influyentes y perversos de esa época les obligarán a luchar para escapar de su destino.

«Заклинатель воды» - это третья приключенческая история из серии «Путешественники во времени». В этот раз наши герои попадают в необычные ситуации во время наводнения в Петербурге. Город начинает замерзать, и нашим героям предстоит найти разгадку этой тайны. Действия происходят в музеях «Арктики и Антарктики», «Зоологическом музее», зоопарке и т.д. Героев ждут полеты на самолёте, знакомство с последним грифоном, возвращение в аптеку к доктору Пелю и нашествие армии снеговиков.

Kateiko Rin lives a quiet life with her parents and her people in the coastal rainforest. Everything changes when her estranged uncle washes up on their shores, harried and half-dead, trailed by two blue-eyed children no one knew existed. To protect her family, Kateiko secrets away her young cousins. Caring for them includes hiding their ties to the Rúonbattai, a warlike cult trying to claim the land for themselves along with as many lives as they can.

Нина Джаваха — представительница древнего грузинского рода, чьи корни уходят к прославленным военачальникам и царям Кавказа. Рано потеряв мать, Нина выросла под опекой отца-офицера, который воспитал в дочери не только навыки лихой наездницы, но и дух настоящей авантюристки. Перед Ниной встает непростой выбор: сохранить верность своим принципам или подчинить неукротимый нрав требованиям общества ради дружбы и признания.

After a chance encounter with an Abolitionist, Rebekah is obsessed by a desire to end slavery. But as a young Amish Girl living on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she feels hopeless to do anything about it. Although she feels loved by her Amish family, she believes she has a higher purpose. But her protective father commands that she not interact with the non-Amish world. In his view, what happens outside their tight-knit farming community is none of her concern. But her life, and the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg, changes when the Confederate Army suddenly descends on her farm.

One day, 13-year-old Jessie Bollier is earning pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans; the next, he is kidnapped and thrown aboard a slave ship, where his job is to provide music while shackled slaves "dance" to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. As the endless voyage continues, Jessie grows increasingly sickened by the greed, brutality, and inhumanity of the slave trade, but nothing prepares him for the ultimate horror he will witness before his nightmare ends - a horror that will change his life forever.

Slavný román o putování hlavních hrdinů Kopčema, Veverčáka a jejich lovecké tlupy stále znovu uchvacuje živým popisem našich krajů v době před 20 – 30 tisíci let. Lovci bojují o holé přežití, jsou nuceni putovat z okolí Věstonic na Moravě až na území Velké Prahy, a musí se utkat s nepřáteli, šelmami, i s přírodou. Tenkrát, kdy v lesích a močálovitých nížinách u nás ještě žili mamuti, nosorožci, lvi, tygři šavlozubí a stáda sobů, byli lidé vyzbrojeni jen primitivními zbraněmi, nástroji z pazourků, a dorozumívali se více posunky než souvislou řečí.

Being a teenager is tough. Having to live in a world as a 17-year-old girl is even harder. Beth Davis and Marjorie Williams were best friends who began high school as teenagers, but only one would survive to be a woman. Beth was a Christian; Marjorie was not. When Beth succumbed to spinal meningitis, leaving behind a full and promising life, Marjorie began to learn that being popular and physically beautiful were all illusions that pass in time and end in death. As the spider devours the butterfly, so does spinal meningitis leave a fallen little girl. Marjorie learned she needed Jesus.

Ronans finales Abenteuer! Unter Broghans grausamer Herrschaft geht Raukland zugrunde. Ronan will nicht um etwas kämpfen, das ihm nicht gehört. Doch angesichts all des Leids fällt es ihm schwer, gleichgültig zu bleiben. Buchzitate: Ronan schnappte nach Luft. "Er... er liebt Euch?" Hannah legte die Hand an seine Wange und strich mit dem Daumen darüber. "Er weiß nicht wirklich, was Liebe ist, Ronan", sagte sie leise. "Nicht so wie Ihr und ich." "Seid Ihr verletzt, Raukländer?" Aus Rouks Mund hörte sich "Raukländer" an wie ein Schimpfwort.

Seventeen-year-old Alexandria White only wants to go home, a wish that would be easier to pull off if home weren't thousands of years in the future and halfway across the world. Since her twin sister, Portia, touched an artifact during their history class, she's been stuck in ancient Egypt, surrounded by the unknown. Alex has been hiding in plain sight and putting her skills to use as a royal tutor in the Nile Delta, an area on the brink of war. When tensions rise, everything Alex left behind—the magic that is her birthright, the danger of the Scorpions—is arriving at her door.

Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts ist die Macht der letzten Vampir-Clans in Europa am Schwinden. Um das Überleben ihrer Gattung zu sichern, beschließen die Altehrwürdigen, ihre Nachkommen fortan gemeinsam auszubilden. Beim irischen Clan der Lycana sollen die jungen Vampire die Magie des Gestaltwandelns erlernen. Doch bei ihrer Ankunft an der wilden Küste Irlands geraten die Erben der Nacht in eine jahrhundertealte blutige Fehde – den Krieg zwischen Vampiren und Werwölfen.

It’s Germany, 1938: A nation on fire with rampant nationalism and virulent antisemitism. Forced to follow a mandatory decree, 15 year old orphan Kat Mueller must leave the remote farm where she was raised and report to the local Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) camp, the female version of the Hitlerjugen Hitler Youth.

September 20, 1663, gulls circle and dive overhead as the sails unfurl propelling the ship carrying twelve-year-old Etienne Gayneau and ten-year-old Abraham Dayton toward Boston and new business opportunities that promise them everything they want. Unknown to them, these ventures also carry the power to destroy. Each boy must choose - take the easy road of promise that leads to destruction, or follow the harder path to self-discovery. Both choices will cost them everything.

"The hour has come to speak of troubled time. It is time we spoke of Skullyville." Thus begins Rose Goode's story of her growing up in Indian Territory in pre-statehood Oklahoma. Skullyville, a once-thriving Choctaw community, was destroyed by land-grabbers, culminating in the arson on New Year's Eve, 1896, of New Hope Academy for Girls. Twenty Choctaw girls dies, but Rose escaped. She is blessed by the presence of her grandmother Pokoni and her grandfather Amafo, both respected elders who understand the old ways.

Emilie, the 19-year old daughter of a Sioux mother and a Scottish father, finds her home destroyed when her tribe is caught up in the US-Dakota war of 1862. Her mother is sent to a prisoner-of-war camp, and Emilie sets out to find her father, Jack Ferguson, who has been missing since the beginning of the war. With help from two new and unlikely friends, Eustis and Anders, she begins a treacherous and emotional journey to track him down. Along the way, she meets a mysterious figure, Roger Paltrey, from her father's past who seems to know important things about him.

Band 3 der grandiosen Vampir-Saga. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts ist die Macht der letzten Vampir-Clans in Europa am Schwinden. Um das Überleben ihrer Gattung zu sichern, beschließen die Altehrwürdigen, ihre Nachkommen fortan gemeinsam zu unterrichten. Beim wilden Clan der Pyras geht die Ausbildung in ihr drittes Jahr. Doch im Labyrinth unter den Straßen von Paris lauert ein alter Feind – und er ist mächtiger denn je. Der Vampirjäger ist zurück, mit einer Waffe, die für die Geschöpfe der Nacht den Untergang bedeuten könnte.

When the world around you is falling apart, you must find strength within yourself. Three years after her father’s death, Emeline has settled into life in Indianapolis. Then an urgent visit to her childhood farm in Missouri changes everything. Her manager dies, the economy is in recession, and the caretakers are moving back to Wisconsin. Emeline is suddenly responsible for the farm… and she’s out of her depth.

Imagine coming of age surrounded by terror and militancy. Tamar, Nour, and Rivki all live in Jerusalem, and all are on the cusp of adulthood, but in a city of tribal culture and an intractable conflict, it is almost inconceivable they will ever meet, let alone become friends. Then, one night, during yet another cycle of violence, their paths cross just as a terrorist decides to carry out an attack on the light rail train.