Tracy Chevalier
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Language
English
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Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what...
Author
Language
English
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Description
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiance, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1901 London, as the precise social order of the Victorian era winds down and the forward-looking Edwardian order takes wing, three strangers meet in the city's stony Highgate Cemetery. Beautiful Lavinia revels in the elaborate trappings of the past. Plain Maude strives to shape the future. Simon Fields, a boy their age, is bound by poverty and professional to the cemetery.As they explore the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, they bring...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and learns French. In vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town's wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her association...
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Series
Thorndike Press large print basic
When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast she sets the religious fathers on edge the townspeople to vicious gossip and the scientific world alight. Luckily Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot and in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally
When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast she sets the religious fathers on edge the townspeople to vicious gossip and the scientific world alight. Luckily Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot and in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
10) New Boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hoping to survive his first day becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school, but Ian is determined to destroy the budding friendship.
1970s, in a suburban D.C. schoolyard. Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hopes to survive his first day. He becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student, Ian, is determined...
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, 2003.
Language
English
Description
17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In this collection, writers draw on personal objects to bring the First World War to life. Contributors include David Almond, John Boyne, Tracy Chevalier, Michael Morpurgo, and Marcus Sedgwick. The texts contain descriptions of war violence.