This should be a sad tale but instead is up-lifting. Much of that is due to the protagonist’s wry voice: Twelve-year-old Bee (short for Beatrice) is an orphan and works for a traveling carnival, living in the back of a truck with nineteen-year-old Pauline.
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In 1937 Guernica, Spain, twelve-year-old Ani is used to being invisible while helping her mother earn a living from selling sardines. Schoolmates call her the “sardine girl.” Ani’s Basque father is off fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
This book will appeal to 12-to17-year old girls who like stories about independent, spunky young women and historical fiction with a touch of romance.
Elizabeth Varadan | The Children’s Book Review | June 14, 2013 Blood Brothers in Louisbourg By Philip Roy Reading Age: 12-16 Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Cape…
Vince Vawter discusses his “utterly eye-opening debut, Paperboy [that] sheds a spotlight on stuttering and the impact it has on a child’s life.”
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Abé shares with us the true key to writing good historical, magical fiction.
Amy Timberlake talks about her research for her well received book “One Came Home,” a western about a thirteen-year old girl who sets off to find her presumed-dead sister, is set in 1871 in southwestern Wisconsin.
From his poor upbringing, his successful leadership and his assassination, Abraham Lincoln is one fascinating guy and the following books certainly do him justice. Each one is outstanding in its own right and they will all undoubtedly captivate their intended audiences.
Enter to win a copy of Deborah Harkness’s Shadow of Night and a specially designed “Ashmole 782” temporary tattoo and a set of 6 buttons, displaying different alchemical symbols.
Deborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, A Discovery of Witches. Now, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London and a world of spies.
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