Children/Young Adult
The Dressmaker’s Daughter
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Daniela is the daughter of a scholar and a seamstress in Yedinitz, Romania. In 1940, she is a young teen just on the cusp ...Read Review
The Star That Always Stays
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Norvia was born about 1900 on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, the daughter of an Ojibwe woman and an immigrant from Sweden. When she ...Read Review
Cuckoo Summer
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Jonathan Tulloch’s latest children’s book features two cuckoos: the German airman who has crashed in the woods, and Sally the evacuee, ...Read Review
Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Remixed Classics, 3)
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Author Aminah Mae Safi’s father told her stories of Muslim women carrying weapons, wrestling snakes with their bare hands, and leading their ...Read Review
Glorious Poison (Battalion of the Dead series)
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Paris, 1794. The Revolution is over, and Robespierre is dead, but all is not peaceful. There are two groups at work. One has the ...Read Review
When the Sky Falls
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Young Joseph Palmer arrives in London when other children are being shipped out, away from the dangers of the WW2 Blitz. He does ...Read Review
The Ghost Garden
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In the summer of 1914 World War I is imminent. The protagonist Fran is the daughter of an under gardener at Longbarrow House, a ...Read Review
The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck
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Writer and illustrator Phelan has taken a true event—the Montgolfier brothers’ first hot air balloon flight in 1783 at Versailles in which three ...Read Review
Cinder & Glass
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Cinder & Glass is best described as a Cinderella tale without the fantasy elements. In 1682 during the reign of the Sun King, King ...Read Review
The Swallows’ Flight
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Three sets of characters (and a dog!) are introduced separately and we follow their lives in the years prior to World War 2 until, ...Read Review