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Category Archives: Historical Fiction

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[review] Out of the Easy – Ruta Sepetys

April 24, 2013by Angel 3 Comments

Release Date: February 12, 2012 Publisher: Philomel Books (Penguin) Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 346 Format: Hardcover Source: ARC received from publisher It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of […]

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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, YA fiction
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[review] Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls – Mary Downing Hahn

July 26, 2012by Angel 3 Comments

Release Date: April 17, 2012 Publisher: Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 330 Format: Hardcover Source: ARC received from publisher Tomorrow will be the last day of […]

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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery Month, YA fiction
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[review] Changeling – Philippa Gregory

June 5, 2012by Angel 3 Comments

Release Date: May 29, 2012 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 266 Format: Hardcover Source: ARC received from publisher Italy, 1453. Seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is brilliant, gorgeous—and accused […]

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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, YA fiction
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[review] Gilt – Katherine Longshore

May 29, 2012by Angel 3 Comments

Release Date: May 15, 2012 Publisher: Viking Juvenile (Penguin) Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 398 Format: Hardcover Source: ARC received from publisher When Kitty Tylney’s best friend, Catherine Howard, worms her […]

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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, YA fiction
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[review] Love & Haight – Susan Carlton

May 23, 2012by Angel 3 Comments

Release Date: March 13, 2012 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (Macmillan) Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover Source: ARC received from publisher It’s 1971, and seventeen-year-old Chloe and her […]

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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, YA fiction
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[review] The Last Song – Eva Wiseman

May 4, 2012by Angel 1 Comment

Release Date: April 10, 2012 Publisher: Tundra Books (Random House Canada) Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 225 Format: Hardcover Source: Finished copy received from publisher Spain had been one of the […]

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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, YA fiction
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[review] Masque of the Red Death – Bethany Griffin

April 19, 2012by Angel 5 Comments

Release Date: April 24, 2012 Publisher: Greenwillow Books (Harper Collins) Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover Source: ARC received from publisher Everything is in ruins. A devastating plague has […]

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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, YA fiction
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[review] The Book of Blood and Shadow – Robin Wasserman

April 9, 2012by Angel 3 Comments

Release Date: April 10, 2012 Publisher: Random House Children’s Books Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover Source: ARC received from publisher It was like a nightmare, but there was […]

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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, Lit Fiction, YA fiction
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[review] Grave Mercy – Robin LaFevers

March 30, 2012by Angel 9 Comments

Release Date: April 3, 2012 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 549 Format: Hardcover Source: ARC received from publisher Why be the sheep, when you can be the […]

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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, YA fiction
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[review] Cross My Heart – Sasha Gould

March 12, 2012by Angel 6 Comments

Release Date: March 13, 2012 Publisher: Random House Children’s Books Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 262 Format: Hardcover Source: ARC received from publisher Venice, 1585. When 16-year-old Laura della Scala learns […]

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