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The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)
John Steinbeck, Robert Demott (Introduction)
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9.6 |
When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the
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The Midwife's Apprentice (Newbery Medal Book, 1996)
Karen Cushman, Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.5 |
Karen Cushman likes to write with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, and her feisty female characters firmly planted in history. In The Midwife's Apprentice, which earned the 1996 Newbery Medal, this makes a winning combination
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Mary Mehan Awake
Jennifer Armstrong
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Current:
9.5 |
Imagine seeing colors and brightness again after years of blindness. That's how Jennifer Armstrong's new novel hits the reader--with a flash and a cavalcade of awakening senses. The last time we saw Mary Mehan, in more]
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Sarah Bishop
Scott O'Dell
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Current:
9.5 |
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother, who take opposite sides in the War of Independence, Sarah Bishop flees from the British who seek to arrest her and struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness. "An engro
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Mary, Bloody Mary
Carolyn Meyer
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Current:
9.5 |
Teen fans of the movie Elizabeth will be fascinated with the pomp and sinister intrigue of Mary, Bloody Mary, an engrossing story about the teen years of Mary Tudor, half sister to Queen Elizabeth and daughter to Henry VIII. A
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The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan
Jennifer Armstrong
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Current:
9.5 |
In a challenging new novel, Jennifer Armstrong reveals the heart of a young woman in the midst of the U.S. Civil War. Protagonist Mairhe Mehan is an Irish immigrant trying to piece together the fragments of her family's life in war-torn Was
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Story of My Life
Helen Keller
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Current:
9.5 |
Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a st
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Herstory : Women Who Changed the World
Ruth Ashby
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Current:
9.4 |
Did you know that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had an older sister who was another musical genius? Musicologists even speculate that some compositions attributed to Mozart were actually the work of his sister. Nannerl Mozart is just one example
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Harriet Tubman : Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Ann Petry
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Current:
9.3 |
This classic biography, called "unusually well written and moving" by Horn Book, is a vivid and accessible portrait of one of America's most inspiring heroes. The story of the courageous woman who guided over 300 slaves to freedom is
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This Little Light of Mine : The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Kay Mills
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Current:
9.2 |
Among the most important figures of the Civil Rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer rose from difficult circumstances to dedicate her life to battling racism and poverty. Mills vividly recreates the optimism and excitement of the movement, as w
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Smithsonian Book of the First Ladies
Doris Faber
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Current:
9.2 |
Dolley Madison is Hillary Rodham Clinton's favorite first lady. "She cared about the welfare of children," Ms. Clinton writes in the introduction, "spoke her mind about things, and in her infinite wisdom saved priceless documents and art tr
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We Are Your Sisters : Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
Dorothy Sterling, Mary Helen Washington
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Current:
9.1 |
We Are Your Sisters, a collection of letters, oral histories, and excerpts from diaries and autobiographies, is "a documentary portrayal of black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s." As such, We Are Your Sistersmore]
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Nellie Bly : Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist
Brooke Kroeger
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Current:
9.1 |
She had herself committed to an insane asylum, circled the globe in 72 days, and worked as an elephant trainer, all for a good story. Nellie Bly (1864-1922) was the most famous female reporter of her day, and a pioneering businesswoman (she
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The Ramsay Scallop
Frances Temple
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Current:
9.1 |
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Lyddie (A Puffin Novel)
Katherine Paterson
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Current:
9.0 |
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Red Scarf Girl : A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Ji-Li Jiang
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Current:
9.0 |
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An Acquaintance With Darkness (Great Episodes)
Ann Rinaldi
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9.0 |
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The Bomb
Theodore Taylor
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Current:
8.8 |
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Time of Fire
Robert Westall
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Current:
8.8 |
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Catherine, Called Birdy (Trophy Newbery)
Karen Cushman
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Current:
8.8 |
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi, Ruth E. Murray (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.8 |
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Silent Stranger
Amanda Benton, Amy Midgley
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Current:
8.8 |
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The Eagle's Shadow
Nora Martin
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Current:
8.8 |
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Gulf
Robert Westall
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Current:
8.6 |
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The Beduins' Gazelle
Frances Temple
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Current:
8.6 |
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Honor to the Hills
Eileen Charbonneau
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Current:
8.5 |
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The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition
Anne Frank
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Current:
8.5 |
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Eleanor Roosevelt : A Life of Discovery
Russell Freedman
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Current:
8.5 |
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Failure Is Impossible : Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
Lynn Sherr
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Current:
8.5 |
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A Woman of Valor : Clara Barton and the Civil War
Stephen B. Oates
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Current:
8.5 |
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Rosa Parks : My Story
Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins
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Current:
8.4 |
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Abigail Adams : Witness to a Revolution
Natalie S. Bober
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Current:
8.4 |
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From Pocahontas to Power Suits : Everything You Need to Know About Women's History in America
Kay Mills
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Current:
8.3 |
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We Shall Not Be Moved : The Women's Factory Strike of 1909
Joan Dash
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8.2 |
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