Children/Young Adult
Broken Song
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In The Night Journey, a National Jewish Book Award winner, Lasky told the story of how Reuven Bloom helped Sashie, his future wife, ...Read Review
I, Dred Scott
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
An easy-read young people’s version of the mid-nineteenth century Dred Scott case—in which the Supreme Court shamed itself by declaring that ...Read Review
Brooklyn Rose
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It is December 16, 1899, when Rose Frampton pens the opening entry in her birthday present, a gilt-edged journal. As she reflects upon describing her ...Read Review
The Toughest Cowboy: Or How the Wild West was Tamed
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This is such a fun picture book illus. by Zachary Pullen. It’s a tall tale with lively and humorous text and ...Read Review
New Found Land : Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery
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This fictional account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is told in multiple voices in a straightforward and entertaining lyrical form. Fourteen characters ...Read Review
Grape Thief
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It is 1925 in the small town of Roslyn, Washington, and the Grape Train has come to town for its annual visit. We meet ...Read Review
Girl in a Cage
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Set in the early 14th century, Girl in a Cage gives readers a glimpse of Scotland’s struggle for independence from England and ...Read Review
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials
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This young adult novel joins the many others in the Dear America series of fictional diaries set at pivotal points in US history. ...Read Review
Prince Across the Water
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In August 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in Scotland to regain the British throne for his father. Parliament had ousted his grandfather, James II, ...Read Review
Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker
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Written in diary form, this young adult novel has the immediacy of first person, present tense. Its day-to-day focus doesn’t anticipate events ...Read Review
