Staff Reviews & Reader’s Guides
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Message form an Unknown Chinese Mother
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The Book of Lies: A Novel (P.S.) by Mary Horlock
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The Magician's Elephant
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The Tiger's Wife
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Enduring Love
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“My One Hundred Adventures” by Polly Horvath
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An engaging and poignant children’s novel about the joy of adventure...
Newbery Honor winner Polly Horvath has written another engaging and poignant children’s novel about the joy of adventure. Twelve-year-old Jane is longing for her life to begin and dreams of having one-hundred adventures. She and her three siblings live with her single mother in an idyllic beach cottage in coastal Massachusetts. Over the course of the summer adventures keep finding Jane: from a hot air balloon ride to delivering bibles with local preacher, from babysitting the strange Gourd children to figuring out who her father is. Full of humor, honesty, quirkiness, and hope this tribute to small town adventures and family is a great read for children in fourth through sixth grade. The sequel “Northward to the Moon” was published in February 2010.
