Children/Young Adult
Ventura and Winnetka
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Ventura and Winnetka are locations in Southern California, where this rollicking coming-of-age novel is set in 1978. J.G. Bryan does a great job ...Read Review
Come See the Fair
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1893: Twelve-year-old Eva Root passes herself off as a medium under the watchful eye of Mrs. Blodgett, telling grieving relatives what she believes they ...Read Review
Epic Historic Adventures: Fearless Frederic
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Set in Paris during the flood of 1910, this is the story of how thirteen-year-old Frederic Lefosse and his friends, Thierry and Claire, not ...Read Review
Once Upon a Hillside
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A hill. A distinctive hill: a Down, with flower-spangled turf over white chalk, a stand of woods and a mound at its summit. ...Read Review
Alma: The Wind Rises
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It’s 1786 when this story begins in a remote valley in West Africa where Alma and her family are living a seemingly idyllic ...Read Review
The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (The Ministry of Unladylike Activity, 1)
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
This is the first in a new series starring May Wong as the protagonist. Regular readers of Stevens will recognise May as the ...Read Review
Buffalo Flats
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When seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt believes she is sitting next to God on a rocky parcel of land, she is determined to buy this ...Read Review
The Honey Jar: An Armenian’s Escape to Freedom
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When Turkish soldiers move into the city of Kars in 1920, they harass and threaten the Armenian residents, forcing an exodus. As Mama is ...Read Review
Little Sure Shot
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultWestern
This is a fictional account of the extraordinary early life of Annie Oakley, told in the first person: the story of a little ...Read Review
The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
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In 1892, when six-year-old Tai Choi gets on a boat, she believes she is leaving home to visit her grandmother. She does not realize ...Read Review