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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
