HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
Secrets of the Snakestone: The Times Children’s Book of the Week
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In this novel set in Paris in 1895, the reader is treated to a mystery involving a missing father and a dangerous society. A ...Read Review
The Fabled Earth
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In 1959, Frances Flood arrives on Georgia’s Cumberland Island at the behest of her recently deceased mother, Joanna Burton. She has lived her ...Read Review
Coming Home: A Hopi Resistance Story
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Honyouti tells the story of his kwa’a (grandfather), who was forced to attend a boarding school when he was a boy. At ...Read Review
Dispossessed
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Dispossessed, a riveting novel about Manuel, a young Mexican-American boy whose parents and sister disappear when he is four years old, is set ...Read Review
Animals of the Alpine Front
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This novel unfolds mainly through the characters of Teresa, a young Italian girl who leaves her village to work as a domestic servant ...Read Review
Ida, in Love and in Trouble
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
With lyrical writing, Veronica Chambers illuminates a decade of the exciting life of Ida B. Wells. In 1880s Memphis, Tennessee, Ida belongs to ...Read Review
A Cure for Sorrow
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A Cure for Sorrow follows three turbulent years, 1886-1888, in the life of Nora Harris, a young medical student living in a substantial ...Read Review
The Land of the Living and the Dead (Gael Song)
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The Land of the Living and the Dead is the third book in the Gael Song trilogy. I haven’t read the first ...Read Review
The American Daughters
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Enslaved on John du Marche’s plantation in the years before the Civil War, Ady and her mother, Sanite, survive inhumane treatment through ...Read Review
The Great Phoenix of London
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Galvin’s extraordinary novel about the 1666 Great Fire of London, a boy and a phoenix, has all the hallmarks to become a children’...Read Review
