Melissa Warren
Find Me in Havana
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Actress Estelita Rodriguez lived the American dream. Her young daughter called John Wayne “Uncle Duke.” Her smile and voice captivated audiences on stage ...Read Review
These Violent Delights
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Gross, violent, beautiful, and poetic, Chloe Gong’s reimagined tale of Shakespeare’s two star-crossed lovers features the city of Shanghai in the 1920...Read Review
Stealing Mt. Rushmore
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Not everyone has a mom, and not every mom wants to be one. Daphne Kalmar’s novel is a story for real kids ...Read Review
Eli’s Promise: A Novel
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Eli Rosen is too weak to walk when he is rescued from the Buchenwald concentration camp by U. S. soldiers and reunited with ...Read Review
Jo & Laurie
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I am a forty-year-old English teacher, and I somehow missed the novel and the dozens of film and television adaptations of Louisa May ...Read Review
I Survived The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived Graphic Novels)
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Reluctant readers are not reluctant thinkers. Lauren Tarshis understands that her action stories and their graphic adaptations are often the first choice for ...Read Review
The Summer We Found the Baby
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A baby in a basket, a first lady, and three precocious children are the ingredients of Amy Hest’s novel seton Long Island ...Read Review
For to See The Elephant: A Novel in Verse
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Elephants bury and mourn their dead. Their bones are sacred, and their bonds are strong. This novel-in-verse relates how capitalism and the worst ...Read Review
Louder Than Words (The Heroes Quartet)
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Eldina Sternik is a kind and bright girl. At age twelve, she cares for her younger sisters, reads voraciously, helps her mother with ...Read Review
A Circle of Dead Girls (A Will Rees Mystery)
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Sick of long winters, farm chores, and family life, Will Rees longs for the open road. As a traveling weaver, Rees finds farm ...Read Review