My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orphans are sure enough children, and real much...
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by SUMMERHAYES, Martha
This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories about life and conditions in different camps and...
Never Caught, The Story Of Ona Judge: George And Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared To Run Away
“A brilliant work of US history.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Gripping.” —BCCB (starred review)...
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
A funny book that makes you cry. A sad book that makes you laugh. A book about two sisters and their family that makes you wish you were part of it--and grateful that you are not....
A Chair For Always
There are some things that Rosa just knows. She knows that she can't wait to meet her new baby cousin, due to be born at any minute right upstairs. She knows that she will grow up...
An Abbreviated Life
A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only...
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees...
A Chair For My Mother and Other Stories
Listen to four stories about Rosa and Her Family A Chair for My MotherA Caldecott Honor BookSomething Special for MeMusic, Music for EveryoneA Chair for Alwaysplus Cherries and...
Mrs. Kimble
“Beautiful, devastating and complex.” —Chicago TribuneThe award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of BakerTowers, The Condition, and Faith, tells...
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
Follow the red canoe from page to page as it journeys down river carrying the family on a camping tour. It's the next best thing to paddling it yourself.
