Children/Young Adult
Monstrous Design
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1794. In Paris the French Revolution is on the brink of collapse. Chaos looms while dark forces gather, determined to take power. A small ...Read Review
Muse
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Alternate HistoryChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Seventeen-year-old Claire Emerson’s inventor father believes her touch is magic, that her skin-to-skin touch grants a person their deepest wish. Claire is ...Read Review
Equal (Bakers Mountain Stories)
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In summer 1959, at the foot of Baker’s Mountain, North Carolina, Jackie Honeycutt’s biggest concern is winning a blue ribbon at the ...Read Review
Championess
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Eighteenth-century England seems like an unlikely time for a woman bare-knuckle boxer to become a celebrity. Alas, that idea would be wrong, as ...Read Review
Nathan’s Song
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Nathan’s Song was inspired by the author’s grandfather, born in a Jewish shtetl in Russia in the late 1800s. Always singing ...Read Review
The Life and Deaths of Frankie D.
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Frankie lives the life of a teenage outcast, someone who finds it difficult to trust others. And why not? Born with a rare ...Read Review
The Woodcarver’s Daughter
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When a Russian pogrom burns her father’s woodcarving shop, twelve-year-old Batya’s family decides to move to America. Mama, Papa, Batya, older ...Read Review
Soosie: The Horse That Saved Shabbat
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Long ago in Jerusalem, bakers Esther and Ezra made challah before the sun came up so that everyone would have bread for their ...Read Review
The Rabbi and the Painter
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This picture book imagines a friendship between two historical figures: Rabbi Judah Aryeh and the Renaissance painter known as Tintoretto. They lived near ...Read Review
Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Percy St.-John, son of an Anglican vicar, is tragically orphaned at a young age in England in 1906. With no family members willing ...Read Review