Lyn Miller-Lachmann
The Secret Life of Kitty Granger
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Living with her single father in a working-class neighborhood of London in 1967, 16-year-old Kitty doesn’t know she’s autistic. Unable to fit ...Read Review
The Story of Bodri
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The Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor describes what it was like to listen to Hitler’s threats on the radio and experience their consequences when ...Read Review
Angel of Greenwood
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Angel Hill and Isaiah Wilson have grown up in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the prosperous Black community known until summer 1921 as “...Read Review
A Place to Hang the Moon
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Orphans William, Edmund, and Anna have recently lost their only living relative, their grandmother. Because it’s 1940 and the Germans are bombing London ...Read Review
The Passover Guest
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In 1933 during the Great Depression, young Muriel walks through Washington, D.C. staring at the cherry blossoms and the Lincoln Memorial, where a ...Read Review
Just Like That
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After the death of her best friend, Mary Jane Kowalski’s parents send her to boarding school in Maine for eighth grade. The ...Read Review
The Sword and the Spear (Sands of the Emperor, 2)
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This tale of star-crossed lovers begins in Mozambique in 1895, in a boat on the Inharrime River with 15-year-old Imani Nsambe, her father, and ...Read Review
Chasing Starlight
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Kate Hildebrand is a survivor. At the age of 13, kidnappers associated with her ne’er-do-well father locked her in a dark room for ...Read Review
I Am Here Now
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When this free-verse novel begins in 1960, fourteen-year-old Maisie lives with her unhappily married parents and misfit younger brother, David, in a cramped apartment ...Read Review
Red Menace
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It’s 1953 in a college town in Kansas, and 13-year-old Marty Rafner and his parents are counting down the days until the execution ...Read Review