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1) Westward ho!
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[c1948]
Language
English
Description
Enormously popular when published, Westward Ho! is the saga of Elizabethan sailors from the Devonshire coast who sail off into the unknown to found an empire for their queen. Moving at a breathless pace from start to finish, the story of the sailors' adventures and conflicts with the Spanish make it an exhilarating read.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
5) Assassin
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of Queen Elizabeth I, from her birth to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533 and her imprisonment by her half-sister, to her reign as queen, which brought peace, stability, and prosperity to sixteenth-century England.
8) Elizabeth I
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Language
English
Description
A biography of the English Queen who united England following her accession in 1558.
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother's cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of a boy she has grown up with, William Shakespeare.
13) Francis Drake
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and adventures of the seaman who was the first Englishman to sail around the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While helping to clean up their local community theater, twelve-year-old Mason and his friend Aubrey suddenly find themselves in 1598 London where a discouraged William Shakespeare has just lost his lease on the Globe and is thinking about quitting writing--and it is up to the children to come up with a plan to recover the theater and convince Shakespeare that the best is yet to come.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life of Queen Elizabeth I including her life as a queen, troubles with Mary, Queen of Scots, international relations, confrontations with Spain, and the end of her reign.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the life and reign of Elizabeth I of England, describing her coronation day in 1559, her enemies and plots against her, and her influence over the people of England.