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61) The countryside
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Examines several aspects of people's lives who lived in rural England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In [this book], John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Stuart as a romantic leading lady--achieving her needs through feminine wiles--and establishes her as the intellectual and...
64) Shadow of Spain
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
March, 1588. With England in a state of high alert as King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. But their plans suffer a major setback when one of their most reliable spies is found murdered in the Hertfordshire countryside, shot dead by a crossbow bolt as he was transporting secret correspondence between the...
Author
Series
Queens of England volume 2
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Language
English
Description
Novel is told in the first person by Queen Elizabeth I whose unique personality changed the course of history.
Author
Series
Ladies in waiting (Sandra Byrd) volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1565, seventeen-year-old Elin von Snakenborg leaves Sweden on a treacherous journey to England. Her fiance has fallen in love with her sister and her dowry money has been gambled away, but ahead of her lies an adventure that will take her to the dizzying heights of Tudor power. Transformed through marriage into Helena, the Marchioness of Northampton, she becomes the highest-ranking woman in Elizabeth's circle. But in a court that is surrounded...
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
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a biography of the English sea captain who sailed around the world, made major discoveries along the Pacific Coast, and played an important role in the wars between England and Spain.
Author
Publisher
Harper Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
As Queen Elizabeth I faces the threat of invasion from Catholic Spain and its mighty armada, she must also contend with her forbidden passion for Sir Walter Raleigh and an assassination plot that may involve her own cousin.
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.
79) 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.
80) The city
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A social history of Elizabethan England, focusing on life among the merchants, craftspeople, and other city dwellers during the reign (1558-1603) of the famous monarch"--Provided by publisher.
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