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HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)

Hellie Jondoe

By Randall Platt - Published 2009

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This young adult novel begins in New York City in 1918 and travels west to a ranch outside Pendleton, Oregon. Siblings Harry and Hellie ...Read Review

The Stolen One

By Suzanne Crowley - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old orphan Katherine Bab, bold in appearance and manner, knows she is meant for more than a rustic country life. Marriage to a ...Read Review

Birth of a Warrior

By Michael Ford - Published 2008

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult Military

510 B.C. Ancient Sparta. At the end of the first book in the Spartan Warrior series, Lysander, the half-breed trainee warrior, defeats the ...Read Review

Rowan the Strange

By Julie Hearn - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Rowan is a young boy with a particularly vibrant imagination, who spends life captivated within his own thoughts – in many ways like any ...Read Review

Crows & Cards

By Joseph Helgerson - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult

Twelve-year-old Zebulon Crabtree doesn’t want to be steaming down the Mississippi on a riverboat in 1849. His father is sending him to be ...Read Review

The Dragon’s Pearl

By Devin Jordan - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult Historical Fantasy

Chomping at the bit in the desk job destined for him in Venice, teenager Marco Polo jumps at the chance offered when an ...Read Review

The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone

By Dene Low - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult Mystery/Crime

Dene Low, the pen name for author Laura Card, has created a wonderful tale of Victorian fantasy in this first novel. The Entomological ...Read Review

Magic Tree House: Palace of the Dragon King

By Mary Pope Osborne - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult

200 B.C. China during the Han Dynasty. In this Magic Tree House adventure, Jack and Annie visit ancient China at the time of ...Read Review

Selina Penaluna

By Jan Page - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Twins, Ellen and Jack, are evacuated from East London to Cornwall during the early stages of WWII. In contrast to their background, they ...Read Review

Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West

By Betty Henshaw (ed) - By Daniel Tyler (ed) - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

This collection of letters, between Leroy Carpenter, of Greeley, Colorado, and Martha Bennett, of DeWitt, Iowa, covers from January 1871 to April 1872, and provides ...Read Review