Santa Monica Press
Humphrey and Me
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Ray Elias is a high schooler in 1963 suburban New York as the book opens. His parents encourage him to keep up on current ...Read Review
Ventura and Winnetka
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Ventura and Winnetka are locations in Southern California, where this rollicking coming-of-age novel is set in 1978. J.G. Bryan does a great job ...Read Review
Acts of Resistance
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In Bulgaria in 1943, the Nazis are making deals with a collaborationist regime to deport the country’s Jewish population to death camps. Three ...Read Review
Mattie and the Machine
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The real Margaret (Mattie) E. Knight was a historic figure: one of the first women inventors of the post-Civil War Industrial Revolution. She ...Read Review
Ventura and Zelzah
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Set in suburban Los Angeles in 1975, Ventura and Zelzah follows Douglas and his friends from the end of their eighth-grade year through the ...Read Review
The Dressmaker’s Daughter
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Daniela is the daughter of a scholar and a seamstress in Yedinitz, Romania. In 1940, she is a young teen just on the cusp ...Read Review
