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Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.
2) Burning
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the scorching Nevada desert during the Burning Man art festival, a small town boy meets a Gypsy girl, when both are at crossroads in their lives.
Author
Series
Kronos chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Petra, her tin spider Astrophil, and their friends become entangled in the competition for the Roma crown, then set out for Prague in hopes of finally finding a cure for Petra's father.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
131 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imagines the search for faith experienced by the ten-year-old blind daughter of John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progess," during her father's imprisonment for preaching found contrary to the edicts of the Church of England.
Author
Series
Kronos chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Petra, her tin spider Astrophil, and their Roma friends Neel and Tomik are surprised by revelations about Dee, Kit, and Petra's father as they face Prince Rodolfo of Bohemia, who will do anything to possess a powerful object, the Celestial Globe.
Author
Series
Kronos chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
viii, 258 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Although Lace Paloma knows all about the feud between the Palomas and the Corbeaus, she finds herself falling for Cluck Corbeau when he saves her life while both families are performing in the same town.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.
10) Nine Open Arms
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
256 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Ambrose, Tom, and Frankie are transported to the boys' hometown of Freedom Falls, Ohio, in 1852 when Frankie blows her Romani family's magical trombone, and to return home they will have to use both Morse code and the ancient form of divination known as the I-Ching.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Amid the glamour of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy's court in 18th-century Vienna, murder is afoot. Or so fifteen-year-old Theresa Maria is convinced when her musician father turns up dead on Christmas Eve, his valuable violin missing, and the only clue to his death a strange gold pendant around his neck. Then her father's mentor, the acclaimed composer Franz Joseph Haydn, helps her through a difficult time by making her his copyist and giving her insight...
Author
Series
Blood rose rebellion volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Edition.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Binding is broken. Mátyás is alive. And Anna Arden is on the run. It seems, yet again, that breaking the Binding has shattered the world. And the only hope of mending it is Anna and Mátyás, working together. But it's never that simple, is it? The praetheria, the creatures once held captive by the spell, are now waging war against the Austro-Hungarian empire. And they are holding Noémi hostage--using her life to manipulate Anna and Mátyás,...