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Joan Aiken & Pat
Marriott When Bonnie's parents leave home, they also leave the wicked Miss Slighcarp in charge of everything. Still in the clutches of Miss Slighcarp, Bonnie learns that the ship her parents were in sunk and that they are to be sent to an orphan school that starves them. With the help of Simon the gooseboy, they might be able to escape. But if they do, where will they go? How will they ever get past the wicked wovles and back to Willoughby Chase?
"The Wolves of
Willoughby Chase" is the first book in the
"Wolves" Saga by Joan Aiken, a series of books
set in an alternative 18th century England.
Allyson, age 10
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Dovey Coe
by Frances Dowel
Dovey Coe is
innocent. She and her family know it, but
can't prove it. She hated Parnell
Caraway like everyone else, but didn't kill
him. When Dovey is accused of murder, she must
solve the mystery and prove she's innocent or she'll
be sent to jail. Can she do it? This
story of about southern families, prejudice,
love, and hate.
~Lindsay, age 11
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Our Only May Amelia
) by Jennifer L. Holm
Newberry Honor 2000
May Amelia is an 11 year old
girl who has to live with six brothers and a boy cousin
who all drive her crazy! Everyone wants her to
grow up and start acting like a little lady, but that is
hard to do when living in the wild west in the
early 1900's. Mama is going to have a baby and May
hopes and prays that it will be a girl. Read this
story to learn about the gooness and tragedy that comes when
the baby is finally born. ~Allyson, age 9
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Fair Weather By Richard Peck In 1893, Rosie Beckett is a 9 year old county girl who
gets four train tickets to Chicago from Aunt Eurtupe to come and visit the
Colombian Exposition Fair. Aunt
Eurtupe is rich and has everything Rosie ever dreamed of having.
Ma and Pa decided to not use the tickets for themselves, because
they have no desire to leave the country for the big city.
Rosie, Lonnie, her sister, Buster and Granddad take the train to
Chicago. When they arrive
Chicago turns out to be more exciting than they thought it would be.
This book contains a lot of historical fiction of Chicago during
the 1890’s.
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The Midwives Apprentice By Karen Cushman 1996 Newberry Award Brat is a nobody. She sleeps in dung heaps to stay warm on cold nights. One day she gets employed as a midwife’s apprentice to help deliver babies. She has to gather ingredients to help ease the pain. She has only 3 friends, 2 boys named Will and Edward, and her cat, Purr. She feels so good she changes her name to Alyce. Then one day she fails an important job. She runs away thinking of herself as a stupid nobody. Is Brat a nobody who sleeps in dung heaps? Or is she, Alyce, a midwife’s apprentice who has a name and a place in this world? Morgan - age 11
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