Ann Rinaldi
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TAKING LIBERTY: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave
Pub: Simon & Schuster 2002
Pub: Harper Collins 2002
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: A small town in New Jersey is the setting for this contemporary novel. Home schooled, and finally entering the town's high school, Millicent must come to terms with the magical gifts bestowed upon her by her mother's ancestry. A moving novel of mystical powers and how they can heal family rifts in a community beset with the petty problems of daily lives. NUMBERING ALL THE BONES
Pub: Hyperion 2002
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: The story of Andersonville Prison seen through the eyes of a recently freed slave girl, who helps Clara Barton record the prisoners' deaths and bury their bodies at the end of the war.
THE EDUCATION OF MARY
Pub: Hyperion 2000
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: A fictionalized account of the first Connecticut school to admit black girls. Mary wants an education equal to that of white girls and doesn't know where to turn or who to trust when things turn ugly. Separated from her family, she must forge a new life on her own. THE STAIRCASE
Pub: Harcourt 2000
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: A novel about the power of faith, set in Santa Fe in 1878, in a girls' school run by the Sisters of Loretto. Lizzy's mother dies on the pioneer trail and her father is forced to leave her behind as he journeys further west. The convent school where she is left needs a staircase to the choir loft in a recently built church which is built in a strange and mysterious manner which Lizzy witnesses as she tries to create a life for herself in this pioneer southwestern town. THE COFFIN QUILT
Pub: Harcourt 1999 Go Back