Nancy Castaldo
Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii
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Vicky Alvear Shecter, the author of three nonfiction books and the well-received YA novel Cleopatra’s Moon, sets her new novel in the ...Read Review
The Golden Day
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While the Vietnam War rages in a distant land, eleven Australian school girls deal with their own struggles of friendship and mystery in ...Read Review
Sugar
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At ten years old, Sugar doesn’t know any other life but the one she’s lived on the banks of the Mississippi ...Read Review
The Springsweet
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“That I went a little mad, I could not deny.” Saundra Mitchell’s opening line of The Springsweet pulls in readers, even those ...Read Review
The Lost Crown
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Sarah Miller’s well-researched novel The Lost Crown gives beautiful, honest voices to the teen daughters of Tsar Nicholas II in the years ...Read Review
The Crossing
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
This is a wonderful selection to add to a collection of American history picture books. Donna Jo Napoli’s writing, whether it be ...Read Review
The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen
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In this Junior Library Guild selection, Geraldine McCaughrean brings to life the showboats of the Missouri River. Twelve-year-old Cissy Sissney and her classmates ...Read Review
Lights on the Nile
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Lights on the Nile is the newest title in Donna Jo Napoli’s growing list of fairy tale retellings. Many of her previous ...Read Review
Dogtag Summer
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Elizabeth Partridge’s Dogtag Summer tells the moving story of Tracy, or Tuyet, a Vietnamese-American girl adopted by a Vietnam veteran and his ...Read Review
Deadly: How Do You Catch an Invisible Killer?
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How much do you know about Typhoid Mary? Like many of us, you may believe the myth that Mary went around in New ...Read Review
