Book Reviews

 

Bella at Midnight by Stanley, Diane

Bella's peasant life is changed when her real father, a knight who abandoned 
her when she was a baby, comes and reclaims her, moving her to his home 
where she lives with a resentful stepmother and two horrible stepsisters and 
learns about a plot to kill her friend, Prince Julian.


Black Duck by Lisle, Janet Taylor 

Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode 
Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the 
violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling 
trade.