Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine de’ Medici

Harcourt, Inc. 2007
The story of the Italian girl who survived an orphaned childhood shut up in a convent and became Queen of France.

Review: "With meticulous historical detail, sensitive characterizations, and Catherine's strong narration, Meyer's memorable story of a fascinating young woman who relies on her intelligence, rather than her beauty, will hit home witih many teens."

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Loving Will Shakespeare

Harcourt, Inc. 2006
The story of the childhood friendship and tumultuous romance between the boy who became the world’s most famous playwright and the spirited farmer’s daughter who became his wife.

Reviews: “Meyer has created a fascinating, complex young woman.” “...well-researched, plausible, and thoughtfully written...”

Marie, Dancing

Harcourt, Inc. 2005
Marie van Goethem was the real-life model for the famous sculpture, Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, by the French artist, Edgar Degas. Marie’s dancing was beautiful, but her life in Paris was difficult and far from glamorous.

Review: “Heart-wrenching and enlightening...a mesmerizing novel.”

Patience, Princess Catherine

Harcourt, Inc. 2004
The story of Catherine of Aragon, who journeyed from Spain to England as the bride of Prince Arthur, only to be widowed soon after her wedding. After many difficult years, she became the wife of Arthur's brother, Henry VIII. But her troubles were far from over.

Kristina, The Girl King
 

Scholastic, Royal Diary Series
This is the real story of Kristina Vasa, who inherited the crown of Sweden when she was only six years old. Her diary begins the summer of 1638, a few months before her twelfth birthday.

Review: “Fans of the series will revel in this remarkable tale....”

Doomed Queen Anne
 

Harcourt, Inc. 2002
This is the true story of the girl everyone loved to hate--the girl who won the heart of England's most powerful man, King Henry VIII, and risked everything to become queen.

Review: "Masterful characterizations and descriptions of England at the time."

Beware, Princess Elizabeth
 
 

Harcourt, Inc. 2001
Princess Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII, is dead. Now at the mercy of those in power, Elizabeth is imprisoned by her own sister, Mary; betrayed by the man who has captured her heart; and forced to practice a religion that defies her deepest beliefs. But through it all, the fair-haired princess is determined to stay alive, and to do whatever is necessary to one day rule her beloved England.
Review: "Gripping historical drama....an entertaining tale of intrigue, self-discovery, and royal wrangling...."

Scholastic, Royal Diary series
This is the real story of Anastasia and her glamorous life before the Russian Revolution in 1918
Review: "Immensely readable and interesting....Both biography lovers and fiction readers alike will gobble it up."
Teachers: For Discussion Guide, click here
For another guide from amazon.com, click on book cover, look under "Book Information," and click on reading group guide.

New York Times Best Seller

Scholastic, Royal Diary series
This is the story of the young Isabel I, before she married Fernando, and long before she heard of Columbus.
Review: "Bristling with palace intrigue....a multifaceted portrait of this complicated regal youngster and her tumultuous times...." 
Teachers: For Discussion Guide, click here: http://www.scholastic.com/titles/royaldiaries/isabel.htm
Then click on "Discussion Guide"

Harcourt, Inc. 1999
Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry VIII of England, was a beautiful young princess accustomed to every luxury until her fatherdivorced her mother to marry Anne Boleyn and banished Mary to a humiliating life.
Review: "Accurately captures the glitter and grandeur as well as the brutality of this fascinating period in history."

Now available in paperback

Named one of the Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults by the ALA.
2002 Young Readers' Choice Award, Pacific Northwest Librarians Association

Harcourt, Inc 1993
In 1921 Rose Lee Jefferson learns that her African American community in a small town in Texas must move away to make room for a city park
Review: "A concrete sense of time and place that will transport readers so effectively that their view of the present may be forever altered."
Teachers: For "Creative Curriculum Connections," click here

Harcourt Brace, 1997
The story of the Jefferson family continues 75 years later when Rose Lee's great-grand-children from the North come to visit and discover their roots and learn that racism has not disappeared.
Review: Readers "will come to admire the lively young protagonist who shares her great-grandmother's strength of character."

Harcourt Brace, 1996
When Isaac, the son of a Jewish peddler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is injured in an accident, he's cared for by an Amish family and becomes part of their life.
Review: "Meyer gives her characters the motives, beliefs, hearts, and dreams to make each one's behaviorcompelling and inevitable."

Harcourt Brace, 1995
Pazit Trujillo, just returned from a year in Israel, experiences the pain of religious prejudice at a small town high school.
Review: "The inevitable conflict between Pazit and the community drives the fast-moving plot to its predictable, but realistic, conclusion."

Harcourt Brace, 1994
A dozen interconnected stories about students in a middle school New Mexico who decide to write a book about their history,culture, and customs.
Review: "A good read or an easy curriculum connection."
Teachers: For "Creative Curriculum Connections," click here

Harcourt Brace, 1992
A white child kidnapped by Comanches in the 19th century, Cynthia Ann Parker married a Comanche leader, had three children, and is then kidnapped back by Texas Rangers in this story based on a true incident.