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Category Archives: Historical Fiction

In Other Words, Marvelous: The Girl is Murder

January 14, 2016by Janet 1 Comment

What’s the story, morning glory? The Girl is Murder* by Kathryn Miller Haines is set in New York City, autumn 1942. Following her adored mother’s suicide and the return of […]

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Death and Mourning, Detectives, Discrimination, Historical Fiction, Mystery, School Stories, War

Review: Nooks and Crannies by Jennifer Lawson, Natalie Andrewson (illustrations)

January 6, 2016by Nafiza 4 Comments

Hardcover, 336 pages Published June 2nd 2015 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Source: Library ‘When hope has left your side, carry on with the assumption that it […]

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Adventure, Historical Fiction, middle grade, Review

Review: The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle

December 23, 2015by Nafiza 3 Comments

Hardcover, 182 pages Published March 19th 2013 by HMH Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher “I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which […]

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Diverse, Diversity, Historical Fiction, History, Nonfiction, Review, Review Copy, Verse Novel, Verse Novels

Nafiza Recommends: Chime by Franny Billingsley

November 26, 2015by Janet 2 Comments

I’d better start with a confession, Nafiza: the first time I read Chime, I didn’t like it. I mean, I got why you did: the atmosphere of the setting; the little […]

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Abuse, Death and Mourning, Ghosts, Historical Fiction, Magical Creatures, Mystery, Supernatural Creatures, YA Romance, Young Adult

Snapshots: The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow by Katherine Woodfine

November 19, 2015by Janet Leave a comment

  *mic squeaks* Tapatapatapa *hushed voice:* Are you sure this thing is on? *clears throat* We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you… *drumroll* … a Snapshot! Paperback, 320 pages […]

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Historical Fiction, middle grade, Mystery, Snapshots, Uncategorized

Steph Recommends: Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick

November 18, 2015by Nafiza 2 Comments

Hardcover, 224 pages Published July 16th 2009 by Orion Source: Library Of the four of us, Steph and I have the most disparate reading tastes. She prefers no-frills realistic stories […]

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Adventure, Buddy Read, Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Review

Review: Ghost Train by Paul Yee and Harvey Chan

August 28, 2015by Yash 1 Comment

Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her […]

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Historical Fiction, picturebook

Snapshot: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

August 13, 2015by Janet Leave a comment

Let’s step back in time back to last month’s theme of verse novels and take a look at Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust. The setting is a small farm in […]

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Death and Mourning, Historical Fiction, Out of Theme, Verse Novel

Life goes on: characters and (non)resolution in Witness by Karen Hess

July 16, 2015by Janet 1 Comment

I was going to write about Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust, the book that introduced me to verse novels (I hadn’t known you could tell a story in poems! The […]

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Historical Fiction, History, Verse Novel

Review: Caravaggio: Signed in Blood by Mark David Smith

June 25, 2015by Janet 2 Comments

Caravaggio: Signed in Blood is the story of Beppo, a fifteen-year-old boy whose widowed stepfather sold him into indentured servitude four years ago. Beppo is less than happy with his […]

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Canadian, Historical Fiction, middle grade

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