Margaret K. McElderry
Betsy and the Emperor
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
It is the fall of 1815 on the remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean when Napoleon Bonaparte arrives there as ...Read Review
Wintering Well
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Wintering Well tackles the issue of physical disability in rural Maine around 1820. Twelve-year-old Will Ames loses a leg in an accident just as ...Read Review
I, Dred Scott
Genres:
Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
An easy-read young people’s version of the mid-nineteenth century Dred Scott case—in which the Supreme Court shamed itself by declaring that ...Read Review