(3) 4-6 Twelve-year-old James finds a way into the year 1600 from the London flat where his family is spending a summer; once there, thanks to his remarkable singing voice and exotic skin (he's biracial), he is made a Queen's chorister. James returns to the present with a greater sense of self. While too mechanical to be fully satisfying, Curry's novel has its moments.

Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2005

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Jeff Crosby. This story, based on an ancient account by Livy, tells of a young Roman girl who, held captive by the Etruscans, leads forty girls to escape and later devises a plan to free an equal number of boys. Though courageous and quick-thinking, Cloelia remains a rather remote figure in a concisely written text that's accompanied by somewhat static illustrations.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by James Watts. Over two dozen folktales from the Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Lenape, and other Algonquian tribes are retold in graceful prose. Illustrated with sketchy line drawings, the brief selections include a creation myth, trickster tales, and animal stories both amusing and insightful. The collection concludes with cogent facts about the various Algonquian groups and information on each story's origins.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(2) YA A hole in time takes sixteen-year-old Maggie back to the French and Indian Wars. She helps out an injured soldier, worries that her actions might alter the past (and therefore the present), then finds that her childhood friend Kip has entered the hole ahead of her and intends to stay with the Lenape Indians who have adopted him. A tantalizing glimpse of a period of history rarely addressed in time-slip fantasies.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.