Showing posts with label Marshall Cavendish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marshall Cavendish. Show all posts

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Best Friends Forever - A World War II Scrapbook by Beverly Patt


April 24, 1942

This is me, Louise Margaret Krueger, age 14.

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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Louise keeps a scrapbook detailing the events in her life after her best friend, a Japanese-American girl, and her family are sent to a relocation camp during World War II.

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish; 92 pages. Illustrations by Shula Klinger.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Lost by Jacqueline Davies

"Mama is on the bed grunting like a pig, and Ida Pelz from next door is telling her to push."

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Summary: In 1911 New York, sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld must stop taking care of her irrepressible six-year-old sister when she goes to work at the Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a missing heiress who is in hiding from her family and who seems to understand the feelings of heartache and grief that Essie is trying desperately to escape.

Marshall Cavendish; 242 pages

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Stolen by Vivan Vande Velde


"The old witch saw that she had gone too far."

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Abstract: A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish; 158 pages