Best Teen & Young Adult European Biographical Fiction
The story of Mary Tudor's childhood is a classic fairy tale: A princess who is to. inherit the throne of England is separated from her mother; abused by an evil. stepmother who has enchanted her father; stripped of her title; and forced to. care for her baby stepsister, who inherits Mary's rights to the throne. Teen fans of the movie Elizabeth will be fascinated with the pomp and sinister intrigue of Mary, Bloody Mary , an engrossing story about the teen years of Mary Tudor, half sister to Queen Elizabeth and daughter to Henry VIII. As the king grows ever colder, Mary is banished to a distant house, forbidden from seeing her mother, left to wear rags, and finally--at Anne's bidding--summoned back to court to be a servant to her baby half sister Elizabeth.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Anne Boleyn was not executed on the same day as her convicted "lovers" or in the same place, the men meeting their end on Tower Hill outside of the Tower precincts. I would have liked to see more of Anne Boleyn in the story, especially face to face with Mary but all in all, this biographical novel is well done.I am not the proper audience for it, however, and judging from the other reviews, "Mary, Bloody Mary" was well-received by most of the reviewers."
"Most people consider Mary the bloodiest queen in English history, and many people have dubbed her awful names like "the killer queen," but I've never bought those lies. It is a great introspective look on "what could've happened" built around the facts we know, and that makes this a truly enjoyable and riveting book."
"I got sucked into the book's world and was sad to see the end of this book come."
"Still, I would recommend the book. Very happy the book and seller."
"The american indian lore, and that of most of Africa, grows real through the telling and imagination of the story teller. Carolyn Meyer has taken the skeletal facts and woven wonderful story from much of her own imagination, telling the story through the eyes of a very young girl, born a princess, in sixteenth century England. This young princess sweeps through the magnificent highs of the utmost luxury of the time to the lowest station of a threatened servant."
"I really loved the history and the easy read this series was."
"Product arrived timely and as described."
Carolyn Meyer's engrossing third novel in the award-winning Young Royals series tells Anne's fascinating story in her own voice—from her life as an awkward girl to the dramatic moments before her death. Still, middle-school girls will enjoy this portrait of the doomed queen, and it offers yet another perspective on the intricate relationships among members of Henry's royal family, his followers, and his enemies.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Though not quite as entertaining as some of the other Young Royals books, Doomed Queen Anne gives readers an interesting perspective on how Anne Boleyn may have viewed life in Henry VIII's court."
"Interesting side of the same story we have all heard and or read before."
"I also liked that Catherine of Aragon was drawn out well here, as were Anne's siblings and the Henry in this book is a man I could have fallen for too.The main complaint was portraying her with the deformities, but other than that, I really felt like I had lived Anne's turbulent and ultimately doomed life with her, and kept hoping for a happy ending."
"The tragedy of Anne Boleyn and the five other innocent men who died in 1536 is a cold splash of tyranny, cruelity, and the harsh reality of Tudor England."
"I have read all the other books in the Young Royals Series and Carolyn Meyer is now my favorite author."
"Anne Boleyn besides Catherine of Aragon is the most interesting of Henry's wives she make the life of Henry the VIII more entertaining because it's so full of drama."
"Very entertaining perspective of the Queen Anne boleyn."
"This book tells the amazing story of Anne Boleyn."
Few persons are aware of the brilliant man's deep Christian convictions and his determination to live by the Sermon on the Mount.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The author is a first-rate writer and connector of ideas who I suspect would be capable of turning the most mundane subject into a thoroughly enjoyable read."
"It is a really simplified biography but probably covers the important facts of his life."
"For me, the book was written so I felt ad if I knew Faraday as a friend."
"I bought it with other books mostly to support the library selling it, :-) but when I got home, I started to read it. Mr. Ludwig's outlook on Michael Faraday's life and how and why he accomplished what he did, combined in that style, made the unprepossessing book quite a read! I plan to give copies to thoughtful friends and family."
"Adults and children alike will find this book fascinating as it pulls you into the life of Michael Faraday and his family."
"My 13 year old son loves the subject of electromagnetism and asked me to purchase a book for him about this man."
"An easy and compelling read for middle school age children to adults."
"This is a good overview of the life of Michael Faraday, the man Einstein said was the greatest scientist of all time."
Best Teen & Young Adult United States Biographical Fiction
The classic story of Abbie and Will Deal—pioneers who left everything behind for a new life on America’s frontier. Aldrich’s pioneer woman was based on her mother, and the integrity of her depiction of life in a sod house in the late nineteeth-century Nebraska speaks to her readers. In her own introduction Aldrich writes of wanting to tell her mother’s story after her mother’s death: ‘Other writers had depicted the Midwest’s early days, but so often they had pictured their women as gaunt, browbeaten creatures, despairing women whom life seemed to defeat.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"You that are not familiar with the Pioneers that came to Nebraska early on will enjoy and be amazed at all they went through during those early years."
"Told by a woman who was willing to follow her husband from the comfort of civilization to the unknown and isolated life in the Great Plains of Nebraska in the 1800s."
"Unfortunately, the formatting puts only a few words on each line which makes it hard to read smoothly and leads to a lot of page turning!"
"I wanted to read it again as part of a reading challenge."
"I first read this book in High School and loved it...I also read other books by this Author because I enjoyed the simplicity with which she wrote."
"A story that any woman who has gone through some "life" will relate in many ways."
"This lovely story is like an operetta defining life on an unsettled prairie."
"A nice story about a pioneer family and the beginnings of Nebraska as a state and the perils that they all endured."