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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
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."--
5) Elsie's bird
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
37 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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
Language
English
Description
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 31 cm
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
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A creative nonfiction account of a young Emily Dickinson using scraps of paper and a pencil nub to write a poem, before she even knows her ABCs, and sharing it with her household and garden. Includes author's note about Dickinson's life and work.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides a look at the lives of Orville and Wilbur Wright, as seen through the eyes of their younger sister, Katharine, who provided support and encouragement while they worked on their many inventions.
11) Snow in Summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
Author
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 4
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
14) The Rogues
Author
Series
Stuart quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After his family is evicted from their Scottish farm, fifteen-year-old Roddy forms an unlikely friendship with a notorious rogue who helps him outwit a tyrant landlord in order to find a family treasure and make his way to America.
Author
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 3
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
16) My Uncle Emily
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1881 Amherst, Massachusetts, six-year-old Gilbert finds it both challenging and wonderful to spend time with his aunt, the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, who lives next door.
17) Centaur rising
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm
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.
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