Clarion
Alchemy and Meggy Swann
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Karen Cushman’s previous novels, including The Midwife’s Apprentice and Catherine, Called Birdy, have opened doors to distant times for young readers, ...Read Review
Imperfections
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In 1862 fourteen-year-old Rosemary Elizabeth Godfrey, her brother Isaac, and baby sister Anne are taken by their mother to the Shaker village in Pleasant ...Read Review
Out of the Shadows
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As Catholics in the time of Protestant Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Dyer and her family are shunned and suffer for their religion while ...Read Review
The Gold Rush Kid
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Billy and his older sister Edna must bury their mother, who became ill and died while their father was off to the Yukon ...Read Review
She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer
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Children/Young AdultNonfiction
Left deaf and blind by scarlet fever in 1832 at the age of two, Laura Bridgman became an inspiration to others similarly afflicted. This ...Read Review
Keeping Score
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Linda Sue Park has captured 1951 Brooklyn and hit a home run with her latest release, Keeping Score. Many writers are told to write ...Read Review
Buffalo Music
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When the pioneer woman Molly first settled in Palo Duro Canyon in the late 1800s, life was hard and lonely. While doing her ...Read Review
On Rough Seas
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It’s 1940, and Alex Curtis is fourteen. He works at his parents’ hotel in Dover, England, but his heart already belongs to the ...Read Review
Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins
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Children/Young AdultLiteraryShort Stories
Five short stories about Claire, an adolescent in a northern Illinois mill town in the 1950s, make up this book. With brief, powerful ...Read Review
The Wednesday Wars
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As the only Presbyterian in his seventh-grade class in Long Island in 1967-68, Holling Hoodhood has to spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, ...Read Review
