Children/Young Adult
Finishing Becca
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
One of the best features of this young adult novel is the fine descriptive contrast of poor and wealthy in its American Revolution ...Read Review
January 1905
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The tales of pre-teen twin sisters Pauline and Arlene change off, chapter by chapter, in this novel geared for readers ten and older. ...Read Review
Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
This young adult novel is based on Patrick Henry’s family and set between 1771 and 1778. Rather than focusing on this founding father’s ...Read Review
The Truth About Sparrows
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Sadie’s life in Missouri suits her just fine, but the family cannot survive in the drought-plagued land. Daddy decides they will be ...Read Review
The Vanishing Point
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
This fictionalized biography recounts a year in the life of Renaissance painter Lavinia Fontana. Teenager Vini is an only child, her mother having ...Read Review
A Ride into Morning: The Story of Tempe Wick
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Rinaldi bases her story on the Morristown, New Jersey, legend of Tempe Wick. In the bitter winter of 1780-81, the Pennsylvania Line of ...Read Review
Black Horses for the King
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This new edition of McCaffrey’s foray into the Arthurian legend is the latest in Del Rey’s Imagine series for younger readers, ...Read Review
Betrayal at Cross Creek
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
(1) Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro has come to North Carolina Colony from Scotland with her grandparents, Angus and Morag MacKinnon. Raised on tales of the ...Read Review
Milkweed
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Newbery-winning author Jerry Spinelli weaves us a powerful tale of an eight-year old orphan in 1939 Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Some call him Jew. Some call ...Read Review
Meadow Lark
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Leaving her home in Taos, Mexico, to join a wagon train in search of her brother, Meadow Lark’s resourceful 1845 heroine is thirteen-year-old ...Read Review