Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
3) Elsie's bird
Author
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
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 4
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, witnessed one of the saddest and most inexplicable chapters in American history. When a group of girls came down with a horrible, mysterious bout of illness, the town doctor looked in his medical books but failed to find a reasonable diagnosis. Pretty soon everyone in town was saying the same thing: The girls were ill because they were under a spell, the spell of witchcraft! And still, the question remains: Why did the...
6) The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, his son Billy, and America's first circulating library
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Billy Franklin discovers a love of learning and books through the Leather Apron Club library, run by his father, the famous Benjamin Franklin."--
9) Stone angel
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While trying to escape with her family from the Nazis, a young Jewish French girl feels protected by angels.
10) The Rogues
Author
Series
Stuart quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
c2007
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.
11) Snow in Summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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.
13) Girl in a cage
Author
Series
Stuart quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
c2002
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
Series
Stuart quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland.
Author
Series
Stuart quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In 1746, a year after the Scottish clans have rallied to the call of their exiled prince, Charles Stuart, to take up arms against England's tyranny, fourteen-year-old, epileptic Duncan MacDonald and his cousin, Ewan, run away to join the fight at Culloden and discover the harsh reality of war.
17) Centaur rising
Author
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 is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request