Diane Stanley

Follows the life of the strong-willed queen who ruled England in the time of Shakespeare and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, well known for his work on the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.

"A fascinating look at Ada Lovelace, the pioneering computer programmer and the daughter of the poet Lord Byron."--

A biography of the nineteenth-century military genius and Zulu chief.

In long ago Persia a poor young man, following the advice of his betrothed, goes to the city to seek his fortune and finds it in an unexpected way.

When two paintings hanging across from each other in a museum fall in love, a resourceful art student finds a way to unite the lovers.

"Prince Alexos, the long-awaited champion of the goddess Athene, follows the course of his destiny through war and loss and a deadly confrontation with his enemy to its end: shipwreck on a magical, fog-shrouded island. There he meets the unforgettable Aria and faces the greatest challenge of his life. Based loosely on Shakespeare's The Tempest"--

When Joplin finds an antique platter with a beautiful Dutch scene, she idly wishes for the girl painted on the platter to be her friend and the next day Joplin finds the girl in the garden, longing to go back to her seventeenth-century home.

Eighth-grader Franny and her friends investigate why most of the students at their exclusive boarding school are brilliant, beautiful, and perfectly behaved.