Children/Young Adult
Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMilitary
Cracker, a failed show dog, can no longer live with the family of her eleven-year-old master, Willie. Desperate to keep her alive, Willie ...Read Review
The Last Girls of Pompeii
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The Last Girls of Pompeii is set, as the title implies, in 79 AD, during the final days of the ill-fated Roman city. Julia ...Read Review
The Sirens of Surrentum
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
AD 80. Italy. In this, Lawrence’s eleventh Roman Mystery, Flavia, Nubia, Jonathan and Lupus, are invited to the Villa Limona on the Bay ...Read Review
The Silver Cup
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Anna lives in a small village between Speyer and Worms along the Rhine, and the time is 1095-96. Anna’s father is a ...Read Review
Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Having reworked the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs (escaped slave turned abolitionist and once as famous as Frederick Douglass) in Letters From a Slave ...Read Review
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Through compelling letters to relatives and friends, Mary Lyons tells the story of Harriet Jacobs, a slave girl in the early 1800s. Harriet ...Read Review
Come Juneteenth
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Juneteenth is an official holiday in a number of U.S. states, commemorating the June 19, 1865, announcement in Texas that slavery had been abolished. ...Read Review
Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine De’Medici
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Carolyn Meyer’s “Young Royals” series offers its readers the opportunity to both learn and be entertained by history’s most fascinating personages. ...Read Review
Haym Salomon: American Patriot
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Susan Goldman Rubin does it again. The author of favorites The Cat With The Yellow Star and Fireflies in the Dark, among other ...Read Review
House of Secrets
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This is the first book in a trilogy about the lives of servants and masters at a great house, Swallowcliffe Hall, from Victorian ...Read Review