18 books like In Freedom's Cause

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The Mad Wolf's daughter Diane Magras · 2018 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom"-- Shares: Scotland, Adventure, History, Children's fiction

The Boggart and the monster Susan Cooper · 1997 · ★ 4.1 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In this companion volume to The Boggart, the invisible and mischievous spirit living in the Scottish Castle Keep sets out to help save Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, one of its few remaining cousins. Shares: Scotland, Adventure, Children's fiction

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the… Shares: Histoire, English literature, Historical Fiction, History

Legion of the Dead Paul Stewart · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "The corpses swayed where they stood, their bony arms outstretched before them and tattered sleeves hanging limply in the foggy air. I smelled the sourness of the sewers about them; that, and the sweet whiff of death. Their sunken eyes bored into mine. I was surrounded. . . ." Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, delivering messages and running errands all over the city, day and night. Gangland… Shares: Histoire, Historical Fiction, History, Children's fiction

Unfed Kirsty McKay · 2012 · ★ 4.8 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Fifteen-year-old Roberta wakes up in a hospital after the incident which turned many of her classmates into zombies, only to be told that her mother is dead and all of Scotland has been quarantined--but something suspicious is going on and it is up to Bobbie to figure out what it is. Fifteen-year-old Roberta wakes up in a hospital after the incident that turned her classmates into zombies, only… Shares: Scotland, Children's fiction

The Silver Branch Rosemary Sutcliff · 1957 · ★ 3.9 · 231p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A young Roman army medical officer, sent to Britain during the period of waning Roman rule, befriends a kinsman with whom he shares an adventure of intrigue, exile, and underground activity with the Lost Ninth Legion. Shares: Histoire, Adventure, History, Children's fiction

The Boggart (The Boggart #1) Susan Cooper · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. Shares: Scotland, Adventure, Children's fiction

The Mystery of the Strange Messages Enid Blyton · 1969 · ★ 4.2 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Mr. Goon, the policeman, can't understand it. Messages keep coming to him, popping up all over the place. But who is sending them? He thinks it is Fatty, playing tricks on him but this is the first the Five Find-Outers have heard about the messages. It all becomes a remarkable mystery, and one which the Five just have to solve. Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction

Lassie Come-Home Eric Knight · 1940 · ★ 4.2 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A collie named lassie has to be sold because her family are having bad times . Lassie escapes twice but when her new owner takes her to a place too far to run from will lassie be able to make the journey back to her home ? A collie undertakes a thousand-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate. Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when… Shares: Scotland, Adventure, Children's fiction

The Reluctant Assassin Eoin Colfer · 2013 · ★ 3.7 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the… Shares: Histoire, Adventure, History, Children's fiction

Wulf the Saxon G. A. Henty · 1894 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Challenging In 11th-century Britain, a young thane named Wulf and his best friend, Beorn, fight bravely for their Saxon king, capturing castles, rescuing shipwrecked survivors, repelling Viking invaders, and fighting the Battle of Hastings. Shares: Histoire, History, Children's fiction

Murdo's War Alan Temperley · 1990 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Murdo and Hector are involved with whiskey smuggling during World War II. Their recklessness soon puts them and their country in danger. Shares: Scotland, Adventure, Children's fiction

Airman Eoin Colfer · 2007 · ★ 4.2 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate One dark night on the island of Great Saltee, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn't commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, Conor is trapped in a seaswept dungeon and branded a traitor. He must escape and clear his name; he wants his old life back – his family, his friends . . . and his princess.Conor knows there is only one way out. It's an… Shares: English literature, Historical Fiction, Adventure, History

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood · 1913 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Challenging In the train, even before St. John's was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental journey was hardly in his line, it seemed. But no satisfactory answer was forthcoming — none, at least, that a Board or a Shareholders' Meeting would have considered satisfactory. The old vicar spoke to him strangely. "We've not forgotten you as… Shares: English literature, Children's fiction

Great Northern? Arthur Michell Ransome · 1947 · ★ 3.7 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The last book in the Swallows and Amazons series. Set in the west coast of Scotland, lots of information about Great Northern Divers (loons); boatcraft; conservation. Shares: Scotland, Adventure, Children's fiction

The Machine Gunners Robert Westall · 1975 · ★ 4.0 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it. Shares: Historical Fiction, History, Children's fiction

Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo · 1995 · ★ 4.5 · 626p · ≈ 20h · Moderate HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo’s take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked, grotesque bellringer, Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society… Shares: Histoire, History, Children's fiction

The Royal Book of Oz Ruth Plumly Thompson · 1921 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Scarecrow searches for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Shares: Adventure, Children's fiction

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