Book Review: Bird in a Box by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Tweet Hibernia sure can sing. She loves to belt out songs just like her mama, who left many years ago seeking to perform in the nightclubs of Harlem. Willie is a boxer. When he’s sparring he pretends he’s jabbing Sampson, … Continue reading

Book Review: The Time-Traveling Fashionista by Bianca Turetsky

Tweet Louise Lambert loves vintage clothing. Even though her mother and her best friend think she’s crazy not to want something new, she loves the feeling of mystery that she gets from the unknown stories she senses in each piece. … Continue reading

Book Review: The Year We Were Famous by Carole Estby Dagg

Tweet Seventeen-year-old Clara longs to escape the confines of her family homestead in small Mica Creek, near Spokane, Washington. But finances are tight, and the family is in danger of losing their home and land if they don’t raise the … Continue reading

Book Review: Letters from Home by Kristina McMorris

Tweet Synopsis: In the midst of World War II, a Midwestern infantryman falls deeply in love through a yearlong letter exchange, unaware that the girl he’s writing to isn’t the one replying. Woven around this tenuous thread are three female … Continue reading

Book Review: Contagion by Joanne Dahme

Tweet For as long as she can remember, Rose has been promised to Patrick Dugan, a liaison forged between their two prominent Philadelphia Irish families. Once married to him she finds herself mistress of a grand home and a staff … Continue reading

Book Review: Wildwing by Emily Whitman

Tweet Addy chafes against the strict expectations a girl of her position has in society. She attends school with girls who are much wealthier, but she is expected to acquiesce always to what they want. Her attitude often lands her … Continue reading

Book Review: Far Above Rubies by Cynthia Polansky

Tweet When Sofie Mecklenberg married Jan Rijnfeld in Amsterdam in 1937 she knew she was becoming stepmother to six daughters. The oldest was 21 and about to be married herself, the youngest was 11. Sophie knew she would have to … Continue reading

Book Review: Prisoners in the Palace by Michaela MacColl

Tweet Before Victoria became Queen of England, she was merely Princess Victoria, controlled by her mother, the king’s sister-in-law, and a powerful advisor, Sir John Conroy. Victoria lived in near isolation in Kensington Palace, unaware of much news of the … Continue reading

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