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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Three Chinese youngsters, Steel Hope, his bookmate Mountain Pine, and Firecracker, a gravekeeper's daughter, vow to remain true to each other and their country, a promise that becomes impossible to keep as war, upheaval, and personal tragedies intrude.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Grace Forcier and her friend Arthur, taken out of school and put to work in a Vermont textile mill in 1910, are championed by their teacher who urges them to write the National Child Labor Committee, an action only Grace seems to realize will have serious repercussions.
Author
Publisher
Scribner Classics
Pub. Date
1996, c1987
Language
English
Description
Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
Author
Series
Girls of Lighthouse Lane volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Eleven year old Flavia and her friends Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia are invited to visit Pulchra, who asks them to uncover who is trying to poison her mother.
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