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The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Benjamin Franklin

By Bailey MacDonald - Published 2010

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Fourteen-year-old Patience Martin is unhappily indentured to the sick and demanding widow Abedela Worth. But when Mrs. Worth dies unexpectedly, instead of freeing ...Read Review

My Havana, Memories of a Cuban Boyhood

By Rosemary Wells - By Secundino Fernandez - Published 2010

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Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

“We live in a city built by angels,” Secundino’s father tells him, and Secundina understands why. Each day as he walks home ...Read Review

Heart of a Samurai

By Margi Preus - Published 2010

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Adventure Children/Young Adult

Son of a fisherman, 14-year-old Manjiro dreams of being a samurai. But after being rescued from a shipwreck by an American whaling vessel, ...Read Review