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Castle Teen books set in, or about, the Medieval or Renaissance periods
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My Contrary Mary
by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and ... queens? Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she's a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is a shapeshifter in a kingdom where Verities rule. It's a secret that could cost her a head--or a tail. Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at the gilded court take a treacherous turn after the king meets a suspicious end. Thrust onto the throne, Mary and Francis face a viper's nest of conspiracies, traps, and treason. And if Mary's secret is revealed, heads are bound to roll.
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Blood Water Paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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Hood
by Jenny Elder Moke
Arrested by royal soldiers for defending innocent villages, a girl raised within the sheltered walls of a convent is targeted by ruthless King John's right-hand enforcer before her mother sends her to seek help from the father she has never met, Robin Hood.
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The Other Merlin
by Robyn Schneider
Emry, the daughter of Merlin, disguises herself as a teen boy to train as a wizard in Prince Arthur's court, where her secret is punishable by death, and must decide whether to risk everything to become Camelot's greatest magician.
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The Last Saxon King
by Andrew Varga
Transported to back to 1066 England, 16-year-old Dan Renfrew discovers the only way he can return home is to set history back on its proper course in the Anglo-Saxon age, which plunges him into a deadly conflict that endangers the entire future of the world.
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And I Darken
by Kiersten White
Ever since Lada Dragwlya and her brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival, and when she meets Mehmed, the heir to the very empire that Lada has sworn to fight against, complications arise as Lada, Radu and Mehmed form a toxic triangle that strains the bonds of love and loyalty to the breaking point.
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The Guinevere Deception
by Kiersten White
A first entry in a planned trilogy by the best-selling author of the Slayer series reimagines the Arthurian legend, casting Guinevere as a secret changeling who would protect the imperiled king of a magical Camelot from a black-haired woman on horseback.
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That Self-Same Metal
by Brittany N. Williams
In 1605 London, sixteen-year-old Joan Sands' magical ability to control metal makes her a skilled craftswoman, but her family gift for observing the Fae, who recently broke the Pact and are now brutally attacking mortals, draws Joan into political intrigue in both human and Fae worlds.
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