Holiday House
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
Murder for the Modern Girl
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
In 1928 Chicago, young Ruby is the daughter of the state’s attorney and popular at parties, but she also knows dangerous secrets—because ...Read Review
Houdini and Me
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Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the same New York City house Harry Houdini once lived in, so our modern-day Harry is obsessed with ...Read Review
No Ordinary Thing
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip
No Ordinary Thing by G. Z. Schmidt is a delightful middle-grade time-travel fantasy. It is 1999, and Adam lives at his uncle’s bakery, ...Read Review
Daughter of the White Rose
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This is a middle-grade tale based on true events that took place in England between 1470 and 1485. It is a fictional take on the ...Read Review
Eleanor, Alice, and the Roosevelt Ghosts
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Ghosts have been categorized into three types: Unawares, who are unaware of being a ghost and do not bother humans; Friendlies, who interact ...Read Review
