Michaela MacColl
Dead End in Norvelt
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Jack Gantos is both author and hero in this novel set in 1962 in the town of Norvelt (named after its patron, Eleanor Roosevelt). ...Read Review
Life: An Exploded Diagram
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Life: An Exploded Diagram is an ambitious novel about the effects of war on three generations in the bleak countryside of Norfolk. Working-class ...Read Review
The Pirate Captain’s Daughter
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In the late 1880s, Catherine lives respectably with her mother, letting friends and neighbors believe that her father is a navy captain. ...Read Review
Between Two Ends
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Yeats knows that something is deeply wrong with his father, William. He visits his grandmother’s spooky house and inadvertently reunites two pirate-shaped ...Read Review
Haunting Violet
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Violet Willoughby is the 16-year-old daughter of a medium in late Victorian England in the 1870s. Violet is a girl with scruples, and ...Read Review
Freedom Stone
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Lillie is a slave on Greenfog plantation with her father, mother, and brother. Her father joins the Confederate Army for the promise of ...Read Review
Crossing the Tracks
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In this debut novel, Barbara Stuber explores the meaning of family in Missouri in the summer of 1926. Fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin has lost her ...Read Review
Storyteller
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip
Elizabeth’s father has left for Australia, leaving her with an aunt she barely knows. But her aunt’s home feels oddly welcoming, ...Read Review
When Molly Was a Harvey Girl
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Molly Gerry loses her father at age thirteen. She and her 19-year-old sister are left without a roof over their heads. Colleen has ...Read Review
