Nancy Castaldo
Keeping Score
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Linda Sue Park has captured 1951 Brooklyn and hit a home run with her latest release, Keeping Score. Many writers are told to write ...Read Review
Nobody’s Prize
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Readers may be familiar with the legends and myths of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Medea, Hercules, and Helen of Troy, but ...Read Review
Your Own, Sylvia : A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Stephanie Hemphill, a poet in her own right, has fashioned a book of verse worthy of her subject. In chronological poems, she tells ...Read Review
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
How many of us remember learning about the Scopes Trail in our social studies class? It was one of the most controversial trials ...Read Review
Hush
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Hush: An Irish Princess Tale is the next title in Donna Jo Napoli’s growing list of young adult retellings. Many of her ...Read Review
The Red Queen’s Daughter
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Often a cover initially draws us to a book, but as we all know you “can’t judge a book by its cover”. ...Read Review
At Ellis Island: A History In Many Voices
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This is a wonderful picture book to add to a collection of immigration tales. Louise Peacock has done a marvelous job weaving snippets ...Read Review
Worlds Afire
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I confess I wasn’t sure what to think of Worlds Afire, a book written in verse about a horrific 1944 circus fire, but ...Read Review
Haym Salomon: American Patriot
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Susan Goldman Rubin does it again. The author of favorites The Cat With The Yellow Star and Fireflies in the Dark, among other ...Read Review
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Through compelling letters to relatives and friends, Mary Lyons tells the story of Harriet Jacobs, a slave girl in the early 1800s. Harriet ...Read Review
