Children/Young Adult
Penelope Bailey Takes The Stage
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The back cover describes this novel, dauntingly, as being “about the struggle of 19th-century women for self-determination.” Fortunately, the book itself is much ...Read Review
The House of Windjammer
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Amsterdam 1636, at the height of tulipmania. The merchant-shipping family of Windjammer is facing ruin. Four galleons have been ship-wrecked and there is no ...Read Review
Yankee Girl
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Yankee Girl is about a young American girl, Alice, who has just moved to Mississippi from her home in Chicago. At the time ...Read Review
Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!
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Set in 1899, Freaks: Alive on the Inside tells the story of Abel Dandy. Born to an armless mother and a legless father, Abel’...Read Review
Dancing through Fire
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The Opera Ballet is the center of Sylvie Bertrand’s world in this coming-of-age novel set in Paris during the politically tumultuous 1870s. ...Read Review
Karoo Boy
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Douglas Thomas is a white teenager in Cape Town, South Africa, in the late 1970s. He lives with his mother, father, and twin ...Read Review
Curse of the Blue Tattoo
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In this second installment in the life of Mary “Bloody Jack” Faber, the wildly unconventional teenager embroils herself in another adventure, this time ...Read Review
Eyes of the Emperor
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“…if they ever let us fight in this war, I will stand up and go to the end. They’re not going to ...Read Review
Honey Bea
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Beatrice is born a slave on the Rillieux sugar plantation in Louisiana. Her father has died trying to escape, and her mother, Ara, ...Read Review
Teddy’s Cattle Drive: A Story from History
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This is a wonderful book to add to a collection of Wild West tales. Historian Marc Simmons tells the story of Teddy Abbot, ...Read Review
