Children/Young Adult
Baseball for Breakfast: A (Mostly) True Story
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Jimmy, a Black child living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during World War II, enjoys going to the (then) minor-league Milwaukee Brewers games with his ...Read Review
Heiress of Nowhere
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
The main character of this Gothic, part-fantasy, young adult historical novel is 18-year-old Lucy. In 1918 she lives and works on a great estate ...Read Review
The Golden Monkey Mystery
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
This mystery tale from the Raj introduces us to Roma, a charming, reckless heroine, a young Indian girl who can talk to cats – ...Read Review
The Home We Dreamed
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When a young couple is only allowed a small plot of land by the river, they use their hands to make bricks for ...Read Review
The Accidental Vikings
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Alfie and Kat are ten in today’s world when they are accidentally transported back to the Viking era after getting separated from ...Read Review
Footeprint
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Eunice Newton Foote had a genetic and familial predisposition for science, being a relative of Sir. Isaac Newton himself. But the cultural beliefs ...Read Review
The Spiritualists
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Stella is a medium. A fake, of course, except that what Stella is faking is the fact that she really is a spiritualist, ...Read Review
And Still Her Voice
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Los Angeles, 1967. Anna LeMar is the teen daughter of a pious Mexican mother and a white, abusive, alcoholic father. She’s the oldest ...Read Review
Evangeline’s Journey
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry largely fell out of high school curricula long ago, but his poem “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie” has ...Read Review
Clem Fatale Has Been Upstaged
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
This middle-grade crime caper follows on from Clem Fatale has been Betrayed, and is the second of Wersocki-Morris’s mysteries set in London ...Read Review
