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233 pp.
| Houghton
| October, 2006
|
TradeISBN 0-618-56329-6$16.00
(2)
4-6
In 1896 fourteen-year-old Megan (younger sister of Hannah from Gray's Together Apart) spends the summer traveling up the Mississippi River on her sister and brother-in-law's steamboat. An inquisitive heroine with a poet's eye for detail, Megan can't always discern people's moral characters. Although the novel sometimes stalls, its sedate pace is balanced by some character-based intrigue, and Megan's transformation is ultimately rewarding.
193 pp.
| Houghton
| August, 2002
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TradeISBN 0-618-18721-9$$16.00
(2)
4-6
"The School Children's Blizzard," a deadly storm named for the majority of its victims, hit the Nebraska prairie in 1888. This eloquent narrative speaks in the alternating voices of two fictional teenage survivors, Hannah and Isaac, who, months later, find themselves employed together at a wealthy suffragist widow's house. Intertwined with a subtly drawn love story are unique threads of women's history.
210 pp.
| Houghton
| October, 2000
|
TradeISBN 0-618-00703-2$$15.00
(2)
4-6
Hope, an orphaned fourteen-year-old spending the summer with her foster mother on a Nebraska farm, explores the farm's past through a series of family documents recorded by five generations of girls who have lived there before her. These individual, first-person historical stories are pieced together like a patchwork quilt in a carefully structured work full of recurring connections and patterns, and peopled with strong female characters.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2000
3 reviews
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