Clarion
The Forest Queen
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In this gender-bending Robin Hood reimagining, 16-year-old Silvie Loughsley has lived under her brother’s cruelty for too long. Now that John’s ...Read Review
The Caged Graves
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Set in Catawissa, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1867, The Caged Graves opens as 17-year-old Verity Boone returns to her birthplace after an absence ...Read Review
Will Sparrow’s Road
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Twelve-year-old Will Sparrow is a boy of the streets. After being abandoned by his mother, abused by his father, and threatened to be ...Read Review
The Broken Lands
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Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime
Walker and Bones arrive on Coney Island to subvert both New York City and Brooklyn to their evil purposes. Few places are as ...Read Review
Mister Death’s Blue-eyed Girls
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Based on an unsolved double murder in 1950s Maryland, where the author still lives, this chilling tale for young adult readers is both ...Read Review
Something to Hold
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This absorbing children’s novel by Katherine Schlick Noe is based strongly on the author’s own experiences. Like Noe, eleven-year-old Kitty has ...Read Review
Caleb’s Wars
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Fifteen-year-old Caleb Brown struggles through his adolescence in a tumultuous setting: Georgia during World War II. He’s waging wars on five fronts — ...Read Review
The Year We Were Famous
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Having previously reviewed a book about Helga and Clara Estby’s walk across the U.S., I was eager to read this. And ...Read Review
The Jewel and the Key
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Addie MacNeal loves the theater. The only person who might understand is her best friend, Whaley, but he’s busy enlisting in a ...Read Review
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
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Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime
When 12-year-old Florence boards the horse-drawn coach in London that will take her from the orphanage where she’s spent the past seven ...Read Review
