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North Star Editions

The Lamplighter

By Crystal J. Bell - Published 2024

Genres:

Set in a 19th-century New England whaling community, this novel is a supernatural horror story with frighteningly evil elements that build to a ...Read Review

The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree

By Lucille Abendanon - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Abendanon draws loosely from her grandmother’s experience in a World War II internment camp in Dutch East India, now Indonesia, to present ...Read Review

The Progress of Our People (I Am America)

By Anne E. Johnson - By Eric Freeberg (illus.) - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Chicago, 1893. Young Lorraine Williams loves to sing and can’t wait to visit the Chicago World’s Fair. Her father laid concrete for ...Read Review

The Miners’ Lament (I Am America)

By Judy Dodge Cummings - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In October 1950, Mexican-American employees at the Empire Zinc Company went on strike. The striking miners demanded fair pay and safe sanitation for their ...Read Review

Stranger on the Home Front

By Maya Chhabra - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Stranger on the Home Front begins in California in 1916. When the book opens, Margaret Singh is a carefree schoolgirl whose father is Indian ...Read Review

When the Earth Dragon Trembled

By Judy Dodge Cummings - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is the story of a young boy in Chinatown during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Han is twelve years old and ...Read Review

The Weight of a Soul

By Elizabeth Tammi - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Soon after Fressa receives a blade that glows with mysterious runes when she holds it, she’s found dead by her sister Lena ...Read Review

Across a Broken Shore

By Amy Trueblood - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

San Francisco, 1936. Eighteen-year-old Wilhelmina “Willa” MacCarthy has always tried to be a dutiful daughter. Knowing it’ll make her parents proud, her life ...Read Review