Acorn

The Sewing Basket

By Susan White - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In this young adult novel, it is 1967 and Ruth Iverson is twelve years old, struggling to adapt to her mother’s recent diagnosis ...Read Review

The Black Violin

By Maxence Fermine - By tr. from the French by Chris Mulhern - Published 2003

Genres:

Literary

At age five, Johannes Karelsky hears a gypsy violinist and quickly becomes a musical prodigy as a result. Being drafted into Napoleon’s ...Read Review

Snow

By Maxence Fermine - Published 2001Published 2003

Genres:

Literary

This slender volume concerns the life of Yuko Akita, who lives with his father in Hokkaido, Japan. It’s the spring of 1884, and ...Read Review