--• Middle Ages through 15th Century •--

Cadnum, Michael – Daughter of the Wind 
(266 pages) In medieval times as various groups of Vikings fight for supremacy of the northern lands and waters, Hallgerd, Gauk, and Hego, three young people from the quiet coastal village of Spjothof, find their fates intertwined as a series of events take them into danger far from home.  (N)

Cadnum, Michael – Raven of the Waves 
(200 pages) On his first Viking raid, seventeen-year-old Lidsmod sails on the ship Raven, joining his comrades as they destroy and plunder villages in medieval England and take an Anglo-Saxon boy as captive.  (N)

Garden, Nancy – Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc  
(237 pages) In 1455 in France, Gabrielle is visited by Pierre d'Arc, a brother of Joan of Arc, and with him reminisces about their childhood together in Domremy and Joan's subsequent trial and burning at the stake at Rouen twenty-four years before.  (N)

Grant, K.M. – Blood Red Horse  
(277 pages) A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I against Saladin's armies during the Third Crusades.  (N)   Book One of The De Granville Trilogy

Heuston, Kimberly – Dante’s Daughter   
(302 pages) In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a place for herself in a world with limited options for women.  (N)

Hoffman, Alice – Incantation  
(166 pages) During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella, discovers that her family is hiding a dangerous secret.  (K)

Jinks, Catherine – Pagan’s Crusade 
(246 pages) In twelfth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City. (N) Book One of the Pagan Kidrouk Adventures.

Lasky, Kathryn – Blood Secret
(249 pages) Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition.  (N)

Levitin, Sonia - The Cure 
(181 pages) A sixteen-year-old boy living in 2407 collides with the past when he finds himself in Strasbourg in 1348 confronting the anti-Semitism that sweeps through Europe during the Black Plague.  (N)

Lewin, Waldtraut – Freedom Beyond the Sea
(264 pages) To escape the Inquisition, Esther Marchadi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a murdered Jewish rabbi, disguises herself as a boy and joins the crew of Christopher Columbus's "Santa Maria."  (N)

McCaughrean, Geraldine – The Kite Rider 
(272 pages) In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.  (N)

Moodie, Craig – Sea Singer  
(165 pages) After his father and brothers fail to return from a voyage to the west, Finn, a twelve-year-old Viking, stows away on Leif Ericksson’s ship and sails to North America to search for them.  (LC) Sequels are Pagan in Exile, Pagan’s Vows, and Pagan’s Scribe.

Moore, Margaret – Gwyneth and the Thief
(279 pages) Fifteen-year-old, Gwyneth, the Lady of Haverleigh, enlists the aid of a wounded bandit in warding off the advances of a local baron who has designs on both her hand-in-marriage and her family's estate.  (N)

Pietri, Annie – The Orange Trees of Versailles 
(137 pages) In the 1670s, fourteen-year-old Marion, who has a talent for making perfumes, gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's mistress at the palace of Versailles, where she gets caught up in palace intrigue.  (N)

Sauerwein, Leigh – Song for Eloise
(133 pages) In twelth-century France, fifteen-year-old Eloise, newly and unhappily married to the rough, ambitious, much older but devoted Robert of Rochefort, finds it difficult to adjust to her new life and unwisely falls in love with the young troubadour who comes to sing at her husband's castle.  (N)

Temple, Frances – The Ramsay Scallop
(310 pages) At the turn of the fourteenth century in England, fourteen-year-old Elenor finds her betrothal to an ambitious lord's son launching her on a memorable pilgrimage to far-off Spain.  (N)

Tingle, Rebecca – The Edge on the Sword
(277 pages) In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.  (N)

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