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North of Tomboy
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1973. Nine-year-old Jess doesn’t like dresses, dolls, or sleepovers with girls. She likes to play sports, climb trees, and do the same things ...Read Review
The Queen’s Musician
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Spanning the years 1529 to 1536, The Queen’s Musician follows the story of Mark Smeaton, the musician who played for Henry VIII and Anne ...Read Review
The Stockwell Letters
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In 1854, the abolitionist movement in the United States had a cause célèbre: Anthony Burns. Having escaped enslavement in Virginia, Burns was ...Read Review
Shadows We Carry
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Readers pick up the story of the Lubinski twins, Bronka and Johanna, in this sequel to The Takeaway Men. Now with the Second ...Read Review
Drawing Outside the Lines: A Julia Morgan Novel
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The opening of the magnificent Brooklyn Bridge in May 1883 meant more to eleven-year-old Julia Morgan than to anyone else in her family—although ...Read Review
The Lives of Diamond Bessie
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In 1860s New York, Annie Moore is sent to a convent for fallen women after getting pregnant out of wedlock. After the nuns ...Read Review
A Stream to Follow
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Set on the United States home front and in the World War II France and London of its protagonist’s memory, this is ...Read Review
Dovetails in Tall Grass
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The personal stories of two young women representing clashing cultures, white settlers and Native Americans, are told in two viewpoints. We meet Emma ...Read Review
Malcolm and Me
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In 1974 Philadelphia, thirteen-year-old Roberta Forest calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for being a slaveowner, and her eighth-grade teacher, Sister Elizabeth, retaliates by telling ...Read Review
Child Bride: A Novel
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Turner, a poet, has written a lovely coming-of-age novel centered on Nell Jones, 16, the youngest child of twelve in an impoverished African American ...Read Review
