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The Winter Promise by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1850.When Opal Sharp finds herself and her younger siblings suddenly orphaned and destitute, she thinks things can get no worse.But soon three of them - including Opal - are struck down with the illness that took their father from them, and her brother Charlie is forced to make an impossible decision. Unable to afford a doctor, he knows the younger children will not survive... -
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Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall invites readers to peek through windows that shine like real glass on this lavish book’s cover, and explore the dollhouse-like world of a beloved farmhouse where twelve children were born and raised.Over a hill, at the end of a road, by a glittering stream that twists and turns stands a farmhouse...Categorized as:
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![Heaven to Betsy & Betsy in Spite of Herself by Vera Neville]()
Heaven to Betsy & Betsy in Spite of Herself by Vera Neville
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHeaven to Betsy : Betsy Ray is loving every minute of freshman year at Deep Valley High-with new and old friends all around her...not to mention boys! But most intriguing of all is the one she and her best friend, Tacy, dub "the Tall Dark Stranger...Categorized as:
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![Walls of Babylon by Kathryn Le Veque]()
Walls of Babylon by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1471 A.D. - Ten years after the Battle of Towton, Sir Kenton le Bec (THE LION OF THE NORTH) serves Warwick, "The Kingmaker", as the man's attack dog. There is no fiercer knight in Warwick's arsenal than Kenton le Bec, a powerful and cunning fighter. Kenton has been tasked with securing Babylon Castle, a fortress that secures a road between Lancashire and Yorkshire...Categorized as:
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![A Tree Grows in Brooklyn & Maggie-Now by Betty Smith]()
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn & Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Northern Borders: A Novel by Howard Frank Mosher]()
Northern Borders: A Novel by Howard Frank Mosher
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA New York Times Notable A novel about growing up in a remote corner of Vermont, from the author Richard Russo calls “one of our very best writers... -
![A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French]()
A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiled You'll come a‐waltzing Matilda with me...' In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie and he's wanted by the troopers...Categorized as:
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![Sword and Serpent by Taylor R. Marshall]()
Sword and Serpent by Taylor R. Marshall
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn A.D. 299, the Roman oracles ceased to prophesy for the Emperor Diocletian. The silence of the gods sparks a bloody storm of persecution that sweeps across the Roman Empire. As the fires of suspicion and hatred ignite all around them, a young man and a young woman are united by a prophecy from the catacombs of Rome...one that will set them on a journey to battle an evil beyond imagining...Categorized as:
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![A Story Like the Wind by Laurens van der Post]()
A Story Like the Wind by Laurens van der Post
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsVan der Post’s incomparable knowledge of Africa illuminates this epic novel, set near the Kalahari Desert, about a boy on the verge of manhood, his experiences with the wonder and mystery of a still-primitive land, and his secret friendship with the Bushman whose life he saves. The narrative of A Story like the Wind continues in A Far-Off Place...Categorized as:
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![The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson]()
The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Sorrow of Angels is the second novel in an epic and elemental trilogy by the winner of the Icelandic Prize for Literature Jón Kalman Stefánsson, and the follow up to Heaven and Hell (publishing in paperback 3/11/15...Categorized as:
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![দূরবীন by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay]()
দূরবীন by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsসাপ্তাহিক ‘দেশ’ পত্রিকায় দু-বছরেরও বেশি কাল ধরে ধারাবাহিকভাবে বেরিয়েছিল ‘দূরবীন, শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায়ের জোরালো, সংবেদনশীল কলমে অন্যতম মহৎ সৃষ্টি। চলমান শতাব্দীর দুইয়ের দশকের শেষ ভাগ থেকে শুরু করে আটের দশক পর্যন্ত বিস্তৃত সময়ের প্ৰেক্ষাপটে সামাজিক জীবনের যাবতীয় পরিবর্তনকে এক আশ্চর্য কৌতুহলকর বিশাল কাহিনীর মধ্য দিয়ে ধরে রাখার প্রয়াসেরই অভিনন্দিত ফলশ্রুতি ‘দূরবীন উপন্যাস।তিন প্রজন্মের এই... -
![The Complete Works of O. Henry by O. Henry, Harry Hansen]()
The Complete Works of O. Henry by O. Henry, Harry Hansen
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsO. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings... -
![Christmas Oranges by Linda Bethers, Ben Sowards]()
Christmas Oranges by Linda Bethers, Ben Sowards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe illustrated edition of the timeless, classic...Categorized as:
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![The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso]()
The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLuanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escape the brutality of the Angolan rebels.Rui is fifteen years old...Categorized as:
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![Peek-A-Boo!: 9 by Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg]()
Peek-A-Boo!: 9 by Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe classic children's game book, now in a delightful miniature edition. Busy scenes of family activity alternate with pages featuring a die-cut hole and a cheerful baby overlooking the familiar chaos. Full-color illustrations throughout...Categorized as:
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![Mud and Gold by Shayne Parkinson]()
Mud and Gold by Shayne Parkinson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAmy tries desperately hard to be a good wife and mother. She puts her whole heart into doing the best she can. But will her best ever be good enough for this man? Mud and Gold is the second book in the three-volume "Promises to Keep". It follows directly on from Book One, Sentence of Marriage... -
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Saving Dr. Warren by Jeffery McKenna
Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPatriotism Prevailed in... ✯ The American Revolution ✯ WWII ✯ 9-11 What About Today?How do we share Patriotism with America's Future?The novel Saving Dr. Warren...A True Patriot answers that question through the eyes of a 14 year old boy.Steve O'Dell loves to write and does it well...Categorized as:
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![Of Mice and Men by Kevin Hinkle, John Steinbeck]()
Of Mice and Men by Kevin Hinkle, John Steinbeck
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratings...Categorized as:
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![To Love a Reckless Lord: Conundrums of the Misses Culpepper Collection Books 1-3 by Collette Cameron]()
To Love a Reckless Lord: Conundrums of the Misses Culpepper Collection Books 1-3 by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEntertaining, mesmerizing laugh-out-loud Regency Romance romps. The first three full-length installments of the Conundrums of the Misses Culpepper Series featuring devilish rogues and the capricious women who capture their hearts... -
![Anne of Green Gables, Three Volumes in One by L.M. Montgomery]()
Anne of Green Gables, Three Volumes in One by L.M. Montgomery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMark Twain prolaimed Anne Shirley "the most moving and delightful" and "dearest" heroine since the immortal Alice... -
![Togo by Kate Klimo]()
Togo by Kate Klimo
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSmall, feisty Siberian husky Togo—the overlooked sled-dog hero of the 1925 serum run to Nome—sets the record straight in Dog Diaries #4! When a diptheria epidemic breaks out in isolated Nome, Alaska, in January 1925, the only way to get life-saving serum to the town is by using dog-sled relay teams...Categorized as:
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![The Girl in the Photo by Catherine Hokin]()
The Girl in the Photo by Catherine Hokin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheresienstadt Concentration Camp, 1944. ‘I have to go away, my darling. Please, be brave, stay alive, for me.’ Mama’s voice breaks. The little girl tries to stop the forbidden tears from falling, as the train takes her mother, and she is left alone…Berlin, six years later. Hanni Winter glows with pride as she shows her new husband around her first solo photography exhibition...Categorized as:
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Barbara's War - The Middle Years by Fenella J. Miller
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBarbara's War - The Middle Years - is the second book in a three book series. The third and final book in this series will be released in September 2014. The phony war is over and Hitler is beginning his rampage through Europe. Barbara Sinclair is determined to 'do her bit' for the war effort but circumstances send her down another, unexpected path...Categorized as:
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![A Love Surrendered by Julie Lessman]()
A Love Surrendered by Julie Lessman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOrphaned in Iowa, Annie Kennedy moves to Boston to stay with her spinster aunt. She longs for romance to fill the void left by her parents' death. But when she falls hard for Steven O'Connor, the man who broke an engagement to her sister, Annie is worried...Categorized as:
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![Blood Sisters by Barbara Keating, Stephanie Keating]()
Blood Sisters by Barbara Keating, Stephanie Keating
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKenya 1957. During their childhood years in the Kenya Highlands three girls from vastly different backgrounds become blood sisters, promising that nothing will ever destroy the bond between them. But the legacy of the Mau Mau rebellion, and the tensions and upheavals of newly independent Kenya, tear their childhood dreams apart... -
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Opal Plumstead by Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOpal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family.Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck-up...Categorized as:
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![A Little House of Their Own by Celia Wilkins]()
A Little House of Their Own by Celia Wilkins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJust after Caroline Quiner starts teaching at the Concord School, she runs into her fiddle-playing neighbor Charles Ingalls, who's full of plans to head out west. As their friendship turns to courtship, Caroline realizes that she has a difficult decision ahead of her -- and a choice that may mean leaving behind her family and everything she's ever known...Categorized as:
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![Earl, Honey by D.S. Getson, Denise Getson]()
Earl, Honey by D.S. Getson, Denise Getson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEARL HAHN is slow, the last one to catch on to things. Since the day his father hit him in the head with a two-by-four of loblolly pine, he’s struggled with a “thickness in his brain.” It takes him longer to make the connections others arrive at easily. When his father is prosecuted for the crime of incest, it feels like deliverance for Earl, his mother Lizzie Belle and the entire Hahn family... -
![The Sorcerer's Shadow by Jordan Quinn]()
The Sorcerer's Shadow by Jordan Quinn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the twelfth fantastical book from The Kingdom of Wrenly series, Prince Lucas and Clara go on an adventure in the forest realm of Trellis!All is not right in the forest realm of Trellis. Birds have left their nests and bears have abandoned their dens, as a mysterious magic threatens the natural order of the deep, dark woods...Categorized as:
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![Cave of the Wind by Avery Kloss]()
Cave of the Wind by Avery Kloss
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTorn between two men, Peta fears Greggor’s wrath, begging Ronan to flee to a safe place. With Peta pregnant again, they seek shelter with a clan over the mountain, until tragedy strikes. Alone and terrified, Peta encounters a group of people who claim to know her, the women there similar in appearance...Categorized as:
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![Chamber of Bears by Avery Kloss]()
Chamber of Bears by Avery Kloss
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnited with Ronan and Enwan, Peta is surrounded by the beauty that is the green valley, the trio happily preparing for the arrival of a baby. While she forages, three hunters kidnap Peta, intending on handing her over to their leader, a man by the name of Greggor. Upset by this prospect—Greggor being responsible for so much heartache—Peta secures her freedom, intending on returning to Ronan...Categorized as:
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![The Pegasus Quest by Jordan Quinn]()
The Pegasus Quest by Jordan Quinn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the tenth fantastical adventure of The Kingdom of Wrenly series, Prince Lucas and Clara must rescue a young Pegasus.When a shooting star streaks across the night sky, Prince Lucas makes a wish for an epic adventure. Little did he know it would come true! As Lucas and Clara set out to investigate some mysterious happenings in Wrenly, they find a Pegasus that is lost and in danger...Categorized as:
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![Geronimo Stilton Cavemice #8: Surfing for Secrets by Geronimo Stilton]()
Geronimo Stilton Cavemice #8: Surfing for Secrets by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeronimo Stilton's ancient ancestor is back in another prehistoric adventure!A mysterious rodent has been shipwrecked on Mouse Island. He's a prehistoric pirate, and he's searching for a lost Stone Age treasure! Geronimo Stiltonoot and his family volunteer to help him on his dangerous hunt...Categorized as:
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![Born in a Treacherous time by Jacqui Murray]()
Born in a Treacherous time by Jacqui Murray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn in the harsh world of East Africa 1.8 million years ago, where hunger, death, and predation are a normal part of daily life, Lucy and her band of early humans struggle to survive. It is a time in history when they are relentlessly annihilated by predators, nature, their own people, and the next iteration of man. To make it worse, Lucy’s band hates her... -
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![My Autosaurus Will Win! by Geronimo Stilton]()
My Autosaurus Will Win! by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor cavemouse Geronimo Stiltonoot, life is one prehistoric problem after another!Geronimo Stiltonoot is competing in a race to Boulder Bay and back! It's dangerous, but it will supply the village cheese maker with rare hot lava peppers, and there's a big prize for the winner. Unfortunately, Geronimo has a lazy, slow, city autosaurus (the cavemice mode of transportation)...Categorized as:
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![LOS PREHISTORRATONES 10: ¡LLUEVEN MALAS NOTICIAS, STILTONUT! by Geronimo Stilton]()
LOS PREHISTORRATONES 10: ¡LLUEVEN MALAS NOTICIAS, STILTONUT! by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeronimo Stiltonoot and The Stone Gazette are in the running for the Stone Age Ratitzer: the award for the best prehistoric journalism! But their main competition is Sally Rockmousen, the ruthless host of Gossip Radio -- and she'll stop at nothing to win...Categorized as:
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![Matt by Leigh Greenwood]()
Matt by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMatt Haskins proved to be the most difficult of all the orphans in The Cowboys to write about. It's not easy to make a hero out of a man who has been sexually molested, especially when the abuse has given him a mental block against physical contact. I had to find a way to make the reader see that Matt's strength was of a different kind from most cowboys...Categorized as:
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![Song of the Sea (American Dreams) by Jean Ferris]()
Song of the Sea (American Dreams) by Jean Ferris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRaider is almost killed boarding the LIGHTNING to save Rosie from the cruel Captain Lawrence, who has kidnapped, tormented and imprisoned her. Rosie nurses his wounds and tries to forget his surprising kiss, while she prays for his life.and for her own strength to resist him. For she knows there's no room in his life for love...Categorized as:
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![4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace by Johan Twiss]()
4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace by Johan Twiss
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDiagnosed with a rare form of meningitis, a teenage boy is paralyzed from head to toe--trapped in his own mind. To cope with his imprisonment, he retreats to an imaginary world called his Mind Palace, but the lines between reality and time blur into wild adventures after he gets a new roommate--an old, outspoken, Jewish jazz musician with dementia...Categorized as:
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![The Cheerleader by Ruth Doan MacDougall]()
The Cheerleader by Ruth Doan MacDougall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFirst published in 1973 and 1974 by Putnam and Bantam, The Cheerleader was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century-Fox, made into an NBC sitcom pilot, and became a best-seller beloved by generations of readers. p/pThe reprint of this classic coming-of-age novel features a foreword by English professor Ann V...Categorized as:
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![Signed, A Paddy by Lisa Boyle]()
Signed, A Paddy by Lisa Boyle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe gruesome truth hung in the air, and none of us wanted to go near it. Not yet.Ireland, 1848. Fourteen-year-old Rosaleen watches her mother die. Her country is reeling from the great potato famine, which will ultimately kill more than one million people. Driven by a promise and her will to survive, Rosaleen flees her small coastal town...Categorized as:
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![Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell]()
Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it?When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis far from home, far from family, far from the world...Categorized as:
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![Verbannt ans Ende der Welt by Rainer M. Schröder]()
Verbannt ans Ende der Welt by Rainer M. Schröder
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEngland 1804: Abby Lynn ist gerade vierzehn Jahre alt, als sie an einem kalten Februarmorgen in den Straßen Londons in einen Taschendiebstahl verwickelt wird. Angeblich der Komplizenschaft überführt, verschwindet sie hinter den Mauern des berühmt-berüchtigten Gefängnisses von Newgate...Categorized as:
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![O, the Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith]()
O, the Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...Categorized as:
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![Songbird by Karen Heenan]()
Songbird by Karen Heenan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBess has the voice of an angel, or so Henry VIII declares when he buys her from her father. As a member of the Music, the royal company of minstrels, Bess grows up within the decadent Tudor court, navigating the ever-changing tide of royals and courtiers. Friends come and go as cracked voices, politics, heartbreak, and death loom over even the lowliest of musicians...Categorized as:
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![Τα γενέθλια by Ζωρζ Σαρή]()
Τα γενέθλια by Ζωρζ Σαρή
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsΗ Άννα οχτώ χρονών, ονειρεύεται πολύχρωμα μπαλόνια. Όμως, τα μπαλόνια σπάνε μ' έναν ξερό ήχο. Έχει ξημερώσει η 21η Απριλίου. Τα τάνκς βγήκανε στους δρόμους της Αθήνας. Η ζωή της Άννας αναποδογυρίζεται. Δε θα γιορτάσει τα γενέθλιά της. Θα μεγαλώσει με ιδανικό το νονό της, τον καθηγητή, που της μαθαίνει με τις πράξεις του τι πάει να πει ελευθερία...Categorized as:
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![They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth]()
They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTears and laughter alternate in this novel of a young girl's growth to womanhood in the 1830s. 16-year-old orphan Martitia Howland has been transplanted into a Quaker farm family of five intimidating sons and one disapproving daughter. As Martitia runs their gauntlet, she suffers their teasing but finally begins to bloom... -
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Firehorse by Diane Lee Wilson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen fifteen-year-old Rachel is forced to move to Boston in 1872, she is furious. She is also lonely, for her beloved horse, Peaches, has been sold. But Rachel soon finds a horse that needs her, and needs her desperately: The Governor's Girl, a famous firehorse, has been badly burned. Rachel gets permission to care for the Girl in a stable behind her house...Categorized as:
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![Fields of Home by Marita Conlon-McKenna]()
Fields of Home by Marita Conlon-McKenna
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe final book in the Children of the Famine trilogy, set during the Irish famine. Michael is a stable-boy at the Big House, learning about horses, while Eily struggles to survive in her cottage on a scrap of land and Peggy still works in America...Categorized as:
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![Grandfather's Dance by Patricia MacLachlan]()
Grandfather's Dance by Patricia MacLachlan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCould anything be more perfect than a prairie wedding? Cassie doesn't think so, for a wedding brings: Two lovebirds together, Aunts from faraway Maine, A long white dress with a wedding veil, Zinnias, Satin ribbons, Dancing under a clear blue sky, And a world that smells of roses...Categorized as:
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