Holiday House
The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra’s Needle
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Starting out in the present day, while gazing up at the obelisk in Central Park, our main character’s mother begins to recount ...Read Review
One Big Open Sky
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In Mississippi in 1879, Lettie’s dad, Thomas, convinces her mother and siblings that they should pack and move far west to Nebraska, where ...Read Review
Light and Air
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It’s 1935, and tuberculosis is rampant and greatly feared throughout North America. The mayor of Buffalo establishes a large hospital, called a Sanitorium, ...Read Review
Warrior on the Mound
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1939 North Carolina. Twelve-year-old Cato Jones is obsessed with baseball. His older brother pitches for the Kansas City Monarchs, and his deceased father was ...Read Review
The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry
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1912 Michigan. Of Ojibwe and Acadian heritage, Lucy Landry has suffered many losses in her eleven years. Her mother died when she was little. ...Read Review
Sweetness All Around
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This novel has exactly the right title. It’s far from saccharine, as it takes a set of discouraging facts—unhappy ten-year-old, deadbeat ...Read Review
In the Tunnel
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In The Tunnel is set in North Korea after the Japanese liberation in 1945 and at the onset of the conflict between North and ...Read Review
Light Comes to Shadow Mountain
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In 1937, eleven-year-old Cora Mae Tipton dreams of becoming a newspaper reporter—a dream for which she knows she’ll need at least a ...Read Review
For Lamb
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Wow, wow, wow! This is one powerful book. If you thought you knew from history class about the Jim Crow conditions African Americans ...Read Review
The Star That Always Stays
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Norvia was born about 1900 on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, the daughter of an Ojibwe woman and an immigrant from Sweden. When she ...Read Review
