Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-545-28413-4
This highly enjoyable medieval fantasy from Nielsen (the Underworld Chronicles), set in the medieval kingdom of Carthya, centers on 15-year-old Sage, an angry and pugnacious orphan, who is unexpectedly purchased by Conner, one of the king’s regents.
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Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-545-28415-8
In this solid sequel to The False Prince (2012), newly crowned King Jaron of Carthya, once a poor orphan known as Sage, must flee the kingdom he has just inherited in order to escape both would-be assassins and the misguided control of his...
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Jennifer Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-545-56154-9
In vivid first-person narrative, Nielsen (the Ascendance Trilogy) sketches a slave’s-eye view of the Roman Empire. Five years of hard labor in the mines haven’t quelled Nic’s will to survive. Neither naïve nor a fool, his main weakness is lack of...
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Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-545-68242-8
Eight-year-old Gerta awakens one morning to a fence cleaving her family in two—her father and one of her brothers were on a trip to West Berlin while the rest of the family became trapped in the East. Four years later, the Berlin Wall has become a...
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Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-545-68245-9
Best friends Ani and Weevil are part of a loyal, hardworking community of River People living under the thumb of Governor Felling of Keldan, who denies them voting rights and infringes on their borders. Though they have little, Ani, an only child,...
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Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-338-04537-6
Kestra Dallisor is the defiant 16-year-old daughter of Sir Henry Dallisor, chief counsel to Antora’s evil and possibly immortal ruler, Lord Endrick. Kestra is returning home following a three-year exile when Corack rebels ambush her carriage. Her...
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Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-338-14847-3
Sent away from her Krakow home in April 1941, 16-year-old Chaya Lindner becomes an activist in the Jewish armed resistance movement Akiva by October 1942. With features and coloring that belie her ethnicity, as well as fluency in Polish and a...
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Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-338-62099-3
Meg Kenyon and her British father have always shared a love of deciphering secret codes, so when he is called away from their home on the France-Germany border on a mysterious WWII mission with the Allies, he leaves a jarful of codes for her...
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Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-338-62093-1
Nielsen (Words on Fire) presents a history of WWI from the perspectives of five young people—each representing an empire of that era—whose stories slowly converge. Opening with Austro-Hungarian Felix Baum, a Jewish 12-year-old who
witnesses the...
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Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-338-79502-8
A British 12-year-old stowed away aboard the Titanic becomes swept up into intrigue in this increasingly tense historical novel set on the ill-fated 1912 voyage. Having left her rural life behind and finding that she lacks sufficient means to pay...
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Jennifer A. Nielsen. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-33827-586-5
Just before WWII’s start in 1939—when no one had yet reached Mt. Everest’s summit—14-year-old white-cued Atlas Wade accompanies his father on a hazardous expedition to stand “at the top of the world.” During the excursion, the group learns that...
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Jennifer A. Nielsen, illus. by Gideon Kendall, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $12.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4022-4019-5
Launching a series, this cockeyed farce opens on Halloween night, when eight-year-old Elliot rescues a girl who's being chased by two kids who he thinks want her sack of candy. Turns out the three aren't costumed trick-or-treaters, but residents of...
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