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Author
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the Roanoke colony and offers possible explanations for their mysterious disappearance.
2) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States in the late 1800s, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the United States' centennial.
Author
Series
Stuart quartet volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Amherst, Massachusetts, in spring, 1834, young Emily Dickinson uses scraps of paper and a pencil nub to write a poem, before she even knows her ABCs, and shares it with her household and garden. Includes author's note about Dickinson's life and work.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur's born, and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Though the Tsar aims his dragons at his enemies--Jews and Bolsheviks--his entire country is catching fire. Conspiracies suffuse the royal court: bureaucrats jostle one another for power, the mad monk Rasputin schemes for the Tsar's ear, and the desperate queen takes drastic measures to protect her family."--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's how it seems to Chaim and Gittel, twins whose lives feel like a fairy tale torn apart, with evil witches, forbidden forests, and dangerous ovens looming on the horizon. But in all darkness there is light, and the twins find it through Chaim's poetry and the love they have for each other. Like the bright flame of a Yahrzeit candle, his words become a beacon of memory so that the...
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