13 Top historical books like The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1) by Gary L. Blackwood

The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1)

By: Gary L. Blackwood

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal…

If you liked the historical plot in The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1) by Gary L. Blackwood , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

1. I, Juan de Pareja

By: Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Told through the eyes of Velazquez's slave and assistant, this vibrant novel depicts both the beaut… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Great and Terrible Quest by Margaret Lovett

2. The Great and Terrible Quest

By: Margaret Lovett

3.97

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Set in the late Middle Ages, a quick-witted orphan, abused by his grandfather, risks his life to ca… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise! -Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest"

-Margaret Lovett, The Great and Terrible Quest

Cover of Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining, Robert Lawson, Elizabeth Janet Gray

3. Adam of the Road

By: Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

"A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff, Charles Keeping

4. The Silver Branch

By: Rosemary Sutcliff , Charles Keeping

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Intrigue, plotting, and battles in the second of Rosemary Sutcliff's best-selling trilogy which beg… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Does one refuse to ride with an Emperor?' 'If one is wise, one does not."

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Silver Branch

"I simply--don't know," Flavius said, and then suddenly explosive: "I don't know and I don't care! Go to bed."

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Silver Branch

"The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man--" and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone els…"

-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Silver Branch

Cover of A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg

5. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

By: E.L. Konigsburg

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

While waiting in heaven for divine judgment to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitain… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore Myers Jewett

6. The Hidden Treasure of Glaston

By: Eleanore Myers Jewett

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Amidst great mystery, Hugh is left in the care of Glastonbury Abbey by his father who must flee to … read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope

7. The Sherwood Ring

By: Elizabeth Marie Pope

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral e… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction

8. The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1)

By: Gary L. Blackwood

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal… read more

Similar categories in Gary L. Blackwood's The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1) book and Gary L. Blackwood's The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1)

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance (The Story of the World #2) by Susan Wise Bauer, Jeff West

9. The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance (The Story of the World #2)

By: Susan Wise Bauer , Jeff West

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives and our children need to learn … read more

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  • historical
  • childrens
  • school
Cover of Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

10. Catherine, Called Birdy

By: Karen Cushman

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. A Murder for Her Majesty

By: Beth Hilgartner

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Horrified at having witnessed her father's murder and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen … read more

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  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

12. Favorite Poems Old and New

By: Leonard Weisgard , None

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

This is a collection of over seven hundred classic and modern poems grouped by children's interests… read more

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13. A Single Shard

By: Linda Sue Park

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celado… read more

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14. The Good Master

By: Kate Seredy

4.14

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his fath… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

15. The Beduins' Gazelle

By: David Bowers , Frances Temple

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

When she and he were only babies, they were pledged in marriage. Now Atiyah has been sent away -- a… read more

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16. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Samurai Detective, #1)

By: Dorothy Hoobler , Thomas Hoobler

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a… read more

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17. The Second Mrs. Gioconda

By: E.L. Konigsburg

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE GREATEST ARTIST OF HIS TIME AN APPRENTICE WITH A LARCENOUS HEART AND AN AVERSION TO THE TRUTH A… read more

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18. The Apprentice

By: Juan Ramón Alonso , Pilar Molina Llorente , None

4.43

Format: 85 pages,

Working as an artist's apprentice in Renaissance Florence, thirteen-year-old Arduino makes a discov… read more

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19. Master Cornhill

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Victim of both the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, a homeless, penniless eleven-year-old… read more

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Cover of The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

20. The Golden Goblet

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

3.82

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil brother, Gebu, so he can become master goldsm… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

21. The Singing Tree

By: Kate Seredy

3.50

Format: 306 pages,

Life on the Hungarian plains us changing quickly for Jancsi and his cousin Kate. Father has given J… read more

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12 must-read fiction books like The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1) by Gary L. Blackwood

Transform Your Habits

I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Great and Terrible Quest

Margaret Lovett

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Silver Branch

Rosemary Sutcliff , Charles Keeping

3.93

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11 best-selling fiction books like A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner

Transform Your Habits

I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Great and Terrible Quest

Margaret Lovett

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The King's Fifth

Scott O'Dell

3.66

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The Arrow Over the Door

Joseph Bruchac , James Watling

3.92

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