B. J. Sedlock
Belonging to the Air
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Beginning in 1912, Honest Bennett, known as “Bird,” lives with her mother, Maddy, and blind grandmother, Odelia, in an all-Black town in Illinois, named ...Read Review
Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom
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The introduction to this graphic novel sets the stage for a tale about an enslaved woman in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1866, who ...Read Review
The Choice Within
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In 1944, Jeannette Crawford is a military nurse in Hawaii, until she volunteers for service on the hospital ship Comfort. Her family and pilot ...Read Review
The Ladies Hall
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Biographical FictionInspirational
The title refers to the women’s residence at Oberlin College, one of the earliest colleges to admit women and African Americans. Three ...Read Review
Every Given Day
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In 1918 Gwen Armstrong travels to New York to help her sister Marion, ill with consumption, by tutoring her two children while schools are ...Read Review
After My Brother Sam
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This is a sequel to the 1974 Newbery Medal honor book My Brother Sam is Dead, by the present author and his brother Christopher. ...Read Review
Call Me Ishmaelle
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This is Moby Dick retold, with several twists: the narrator is a young female who dresses as a male to pass as a ...Read Review
All the Tea in China (The Orchid Hunters series)
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A sequel to The Orchid and the Emerald, this second volume continues the 1820s adventures in China of British officer William Gunn and ...Read Review
Cromwell’s Reign: A Henry Darcy Story
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Henry Darcy is a soldier on the Royalist side during the War of the Three Kingdoms, starting in 1649. He is a witness at ...Read Review
Exquisite Things
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An element of magical realism complicates the romance between Shahriar, a teen of Persian descent, and American musician Oliver. The two meet at ...Read Review
