Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys - Review
Book Synopsis: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys....
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Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - Review
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Lyra Thompson
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Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Lyra Thompson
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Book Synopsis: Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a...
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Lyra Thompson
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Always Emily by Michaela MacColl - Review
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Lyra Thompson
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Book Synopsis: While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the...
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Lyra Thompson
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(SPOILERS) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - Review
Book Synopsis: Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis...
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Lyra Thompson
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Annie, Between the States by L. M. Elliott - Review
Book Synopsis: Annie Sinclair's Virginia home is in the battle path of the Civil War. Her brothers, Laurence and Jamie, fight to defend...
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Lyra Thompson
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The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin - Review
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Lyra Thompson
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(SPOILERS) This Quiet Sky by Joanne Bischof - Review
Book Synopsis: There is nothing extraordinary about Tucker O’Shay’s dreams. Go to college. Become president. Fall in love. And pretend...
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Lyra Thompson
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Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - Review
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Lyra Thompson
Dec 16, 20223 min read
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva - Review
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Send For Me by Lauren Fox - Review
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