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Silver Hammer, Golden Cross by Octavia Randolph
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Peace which must be defended. A vow which must be broken. It is the final decade of the ninth century. The Peace between Wessex and the Danes long-settled in the Danelaw erodes. A new onslaught of Danes attacks Angle-land, trying once and for all to destroy Ælfred...Categorized as:
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![The Lost Letters of Aisling: A Novel by Cynthia Ellingsen]()
The Lost Letters of Aisling: A Novel by Cynthia Ellingsen
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA woman faces the past she fled in a heart-stirring novel about unforgettable love and indomitable courage by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper.Rainey’s grandmother makes a startling Take me home. To Ireland, the country she fled post–World War II. Though they’re inseparably close, Rainey knows few of her grandmother’s secrets...Categorized as:
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![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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![Orphan Train Trials by Rachel Wesson]()
Orphan Train Trials by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBella Jones and Kathleen Collins are as close as sisters and that’s how they want things to stay. But fate intervenes. Kathleen’s brothers have disappeared, they traveled from New York on the Orphan Train and nobody has heard from them since. She can’t shed her gut feeling something awful has happened to them... -
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![The Best-Loved Doll by Rebecca Caudill]()
The Best-Loved Doll by Rebecca Caudill
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor a doll contest at a party, a little girl chooses to enter a doll that seems least likely to win a prize...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... -
![Sweet Songbird by Teresa Crane]()
Sweet Songbird by Teresa Crane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFleeing their Suffolk home in the wake of disaster, Kitty Daniels and her brother Matt arrive in the stews of 19th-century Whitechapel with nothing but the clothes in which they stand and, to each, a talent. Kitty’s voice may hold the key to escape from the savage squalor of the slums; but Matt’s talent for thieving, whilst more immediately useful, plunges them both into deadly danger... -
![Evanthia's Gift by Effie Kammenou]()
Evanthia's Gift by Effie Kammenou
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the year 1956, Anastacia Fotopoulos finds herself pregnant and betrayed, fleeing from a bad marriage. With the love and support of her dear friends Stavros and Soula Papadakis, Ana is able to face the challenges of single motherhood. Left with emotional wounds, she resists her growing affection for Alexandros Giannakos, an old acquaintance... -
![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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![An Ordinary Woman: An utterly captivating and uplifting story of one woman’s strength and determination… by Susan Sallis]()
An Ordinary Woman: An utterly captivating and uplifting story of one woman’s strength and determination… by Susan Sallis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Rose was four the scandal broke about her head. She was really too young to understand what was happening - only that her mother was in disgrace and that they were leaving Aunt Mabe in America and returning home to England. The following May, Joanna - 'Jon' - was born. Rose and Jon were totally different... -
![Coming Apart by Karen Heenan]()
Coming Apart by Karen Heenan
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo one knows you like a sister.Ava has always been poor, so she doesn't think the Great Depression will change anything. But when her mother dies and her coal miner husband loses his job, Ava's certainty falters. The last thing she needs is a letter from her estranged sister, asking for the impossible.Claire has everything she could ever want, except the child she promised her husband... -
![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 Diamond Horse by Stacy Gregg]()
The Diamond Horse by Stacy Gregg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA frozen palace and a sparkling secret – an epic Russian adventure awaits!Anna Orlov might be the luckiest girl in the world. She is the daughter of a Russian Count and lives in a beautiful snowbound palace that is home to a menagerie of wonderful animals: tigers, wolfhounds and, of course, horses. And she is also the owner of a beautiful heirloom – a diamond necklace with a secret past...Categorized as:
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![Outbound Train by Renea Winchester]()
Outbound Train by Renea Winchester
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1976, memories from a night near the railroad tracks sixteen years earlier haunt Barbara Parker. She wrestles with past demons every night, then wakes to the train’s five-thirty whistle. Exhausted and dreading the day, she keeps her hands busy working in Bryson City’s textile plant, known as the “blue jean plant,” all the while worrying about her teenage daughter, Carole Anne... -
![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... -
![The Secret Years: An emotional drama of love and survival by Judith Lennox]()
The Secret Years: An emotional drama of love and survival by Judith Lennox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA moving story about life in the East Anglian Fens after the First World War, evoking the emotions of the men who came through their ordeals and the women who survived the trauma of separation.During the golden summer of 1914, four young people played in the gardens of Drakesden Abbey... -
![Liverpool Lou by Lyn Andrews]()
Liverpool Lou by Lyn Andrews
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of Lyn Andrews' first eight novels, transferring from the original publisher to Headline; already steady sellers, they will be targeted for a huge increase in sales. Aunt Babsey considered herself a cut above her neighbours on Everton Ridge. For one thing she was 'trade'. She taught her children to be respectable, and she ruled her family with a rod of iron... -
![A Whisper To The Living by Ruth Hamilton]()
A Whisper To The Living by Ruth Hamilton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnnie Byrne was born during one of the worst winters Lancashire ever remembered. When the doctor finally got through the nine-foot drifts of snow, mother and daughter were in a pretty bad way, but both the new-born Annie and her exhausted mother - a spinner in the cotton mill - were fighters, tough and determined not to let the world knock them down... -
![How to Claim a Governess’s Heart by Bridget Barton]()
How to Claim a Governess’s Heart by Bridget Barton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEver since her parents died, Bridget Thatcher has been left destitute and determined that she will never find happiness in her life. Having been left with no choice, she becomes a governess to earn her living. Fortune smiles on her, though, when she is assigned to a little girl that quickly warms her broken heart...Categorized as:
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![In All Good Faith by Liza Nash Taylor]()
In All Good Faith by Liza Nash Taylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“A well-researched and deftly written historical fiction novel…Highly recommended."-Booklist (starred review) A riveting new historical fiction novel, In All Good Faith continues the story of May Marshall, the captivating protagonist introduced in Taylor’s acclaimed 2020 debut, Etiquette for Runaways...Categorized as:
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![The Last Waltz: Hearts are at stake in the game of love... (Dorothy Mack Regency Romances) by Dorothy Mack]()
The Last Waltz: Hearts are at stake in the game of love... (Dorothy Mack Regency Romances) by Dorothy Mack
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA gripping Regency adventure with a plucky heroine! Perfect for fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Jane Aiken Hodge and Jane Austen. Can Adrienne reverse her family’s misfortune? Belgium When her gambling father dies, young Adrienne Castle must find a way to support her family...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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![To Stand On My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937 by Barbara Haworth-Attard]()
To Stand On My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937 by Barbara Haworth-Attard
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the summer of 1937, life on the Prairies is not easy. The Great Depression has brought great hardship, and young Noreen’s family must scrimp to make ends meet.In a horrible twist of fate, Noreen, like hundreds of other young Canadians, contracts polio and is placed in an isolation ward, unable to move her legs...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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![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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![A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood]()
A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA snow-dusted love story. In the Autumn of 1931, impetuous Freya leaves her family in Cornwall to follow her dream of becoming an actress. She joins a theatrical company and, amidst all the enchantment and bustle of stage life, falls in love with the handsome, glamorous leading man...Categorized as:
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![Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin, Betsie Bush]()
Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin, Betsie Bush
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe story of four young girls who take over a small, deserted home and fix it up for their use as a clubhouse.Carroll Watson Rankin's best known novel is Dandelion Cottage, published in 1904 by Henry Holt and Company. She first wrote the story serially for her own children...Categorized as:
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![Lime Street Blues by Maureen Lee]()
Lime Street Blues by Maureen Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the 1960s Liverpool, and the glamorous world of music, is the place to be... -
![A Prior Attachment by Dorothy Mack]()
A Prior Attachment by Dorothy Mack
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA delightful Regency romance! Perfect for fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Jane Aiken Hodge and Jane Austen. Who is the right man for Gemma? Regency England For two years, Lady Gemma Monteith has awaited the return of her old friend Captain George Godwin, who has been away fighting in the Peninsular war. Having been in love with him since childhood, she is determined to become his wife...Categorized as:
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![Forever Waiting: Colette's Appeal by DeVa Gantt]()
Forever Waiting: Colette's Appeal by DeVa Gantt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe gripping saga of the Duvoisins—an extraordinary American family both blessed and cursed—reaches a stunning conclusion. . . . In the wake of heartbreaking tragedy and volatile revelations, the once-great Duvoisin family of Virginia teeters on the brink of disintegration. And trusted governess, Charmaine Ryan, suffers with them... -
![Jarvisfield by Gretta Curran Browne]()
Jarvisfield by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA STAND ALONE NOVEL - and Book 3 of The Macquarie Series A mixture of the Arabic blood of her father, and the English blood of her mother, Elizabeth (Beth) Jarvis grows up on the estate of Jarvisfield in Scotland. A dark-haired, dark-eyed girl of uncommon beauty who enslaves the hearts of two young men, while loving only one... -
![The Last Carolina Girl by Meagan Church]()
The Last Carolina Girl by Meagan Church
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her ownSome folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl...For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free... -
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![Damsel to the Rescue by Elizabeth Bailey]()
Damsel to the Rescue by Elizabeth Bailey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fugitive stranger and a frantic forest escape.Four years on the marriage mart have left Delia Burloyne resigned to life as a maiden aunt. Then fate takes a hand. Waylaid on the road to Weymouth, her life is turned inside out by the intrepid Giffard Gaunt. He’s on the run and desperate.Plunged into a dangerous dash for freedom with a wounded man on her hands, Delia must dig deep for courage...Categorized as:
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![Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth by Patricia Clapp]()
Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth by Patricia Clapp
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Indians started some sort of rhythmic chanting, with a clapping of their hands to accent it, and I sat a little apart at, one of the fires listening. It was a strange sound that somehow sent my blood pulsing more quickly and made me wish I could stand up and dance round and round the fire, but this I knew would not be fitting...Categorized as:
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![Sarah's Secret by Tanya Anne Crosby, Alaina Christine Crosby]()
Sarah's Secret by Tanya Anne Crosby, Alaina Christine Crosby
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Sarah’s Secret” is the SWEET/CLEAN edition of “Perfect In My Sight“ by Tanya Anne Crosby, revised by a New York Times bestselling author and her daughter What would you do if you believed someone you loved was murdered? Everyone suspected Peter Holland married Sarah Woodard's cousin for money. Some were certain he killed her for it. Sarah is determined to learn the truth... -
![Happy Birthday, Kit: A Springtime Story by Valerie Tripp]()
Happy Birthday, Kit: A Springtime Story by Valerie Tripp
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKit's tenth birthday is approaching, but the chances of having a celebration are pretty slim. There's no time to plan a party and no money either, since Dad still doesn't have a job. When Aunt Millie comes for a visit, Kit finds new reasons to hope...Categorized as:
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![Little City by the Lake by Celia Wilkins]()
Little City by the Lake by Celia Wilkins
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpirit of the Western FrontierFifteen-year-old Caroline is leaving her Concord home for the first time to live with her aunt and uncle in Milwaukee, where she will attend Milwaukee Female College. At first, Caroline is frightened by the big, bustling city, and she finds school more challenging than she expected. But she soon begins to enjoy all the excitement Milwaukee has to offer...Categorized as:
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![The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig]()
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNovelist Ivan Doig revisits the American west in the early twentieth century, bringing to life the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it thrive. “Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909...Categorized as:
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![Little Farm in the Ozarks by Roger Lea MacBride]()
Little Farm in the Ozarks by Roger Lea MacBride
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt's 1894, and Rose and her parents are settling into life at Rocky Ridge Farm. Soon the school year will start and Rose will be the new girl...Categorized as:
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![Little House in the Highlands by Melissa Wiley]()
Little House in the Highlands by Melissa Wiley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsMeet Martha the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder's great-grandmother. It's 1788, and six year old Martha lives in a little stone house in Glencraid, Scotland. Martha's father is Laird Glencaraid, and the life of the Laird's daughter is not always easy for a lively girl like Martha...Categorized as:
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![Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847 by Kristiana Gregory, Stina Nielsen]()
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847 by Kristiana Gregory, Stina Nielsen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAt first, 13-year-old Hattie and her family find the wagon train adventue exciting, but as time passes, death, disease, weather, and the terrain make it a tedious and dangerous trip. Through Hattie's diary, the rigors - and the joys - of this fascinating era in history are deftly chronicled...Categorized as:
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![Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay, Humphrey Bower]()
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay, Humphrey Bower
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf poker was an addiction then music was an overwhelming obsession; one could never replace the other in my life.During the Great Depression there was little hope for a boy born into the slums of Cabbagetown, Toronto. But Jack Spayd is offered a ticket out in the form of a Hohner harmonica, won by his brutal drunken father in a late-night card game... -
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![Whistling Woman by C.C. Tillery]()
Whistling Woman by C.C. Tillery
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the waning years of the 19th century, Bessie Daniels grows up in the small town of Hot Springs in western North Carolina. Secure in the love of her father, yet troubled with her mother's desire that she be a proper Southern belle, Bessie is determined to forge her own way in life. Or, as her Cherokee great- grandmother, Elisi, puts it, to be a whistling woman...Categorized as:
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![Changes for Kit by Valerie Tripp]()
Changes for Kit by Valerie Tripp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKit doesn't like her cranky Uncle Hendrick, until he unwittingly gives Kit a great idea that gives her and her family hope for the future...Categorized as:
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![Kit Learns a Lesson: A School Story, 1934 by Valerie Tripp]()
Kit Learns a Lesson: A School Story, 1934 by Valerie Tripp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMillions of girls have been waiting for the debut of the newest American Girl -- and now she's here! Kit Kittredge is a nine-year-old girl growing up during the 1930s, a time when banks failed, people lost their money, and families struggled -- but Americans opened their hearts and helped each other...Categorized as:
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![Kit Saves the Day: A Summer Story by Valerie Tripp]()
Kit Saves the Day: A Summer Story by Valerie Tripp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKit meets a young hobo who shares his exciting life on the road...Categorized as:
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![Magic Tree House Boxed Set: The Mystery of the Lost Libraries, #4 (Magic Tree House) by Mary Pope Osborne]()
Magic Tree House Boxed Set: The Mystery of the Lost Libraries, #4 (Magic Tree House) by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBooks 13-16 of the "New York Times" bestselling Magic Tree House series boxed together for the first time These four titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure...Categorized as:
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![Danger at the Zoo: A Kit Mystery by Kathleen Ernst]()
Danger at the Zoo: A Kit Mystery by Kathleen Ernst
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKit lands a summer job writing a children's column for her local newspaper. She decides to look for story ideas at the Cincinnati Zoo, where her friend Stirling works as a guide and her old friend Will, the hobo, has a job cleaning cages. As Kit noses around the zoo, she stumbles into some strange doings in the monkey house...Categorized as:
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