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Timothy, Or, Notes of an Abject ReptileVerlyn Klinkenborg traces the natural history of tortoises through the story of Timothy, a tortoise who lived in the garden of eighteenth-century English curate Gilbert White for thirteen years while |
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A Separate PeaceGene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. |
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Monkey TownWhen her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-y |
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Inside the Walls of TroyThe events surrounding the famous battle between the Greeks and the Trojans are told from the points of view of two women, the beautiful Helen and the prophetic Cassandra. |
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From Time to TimeIn this sequel to "Time and again," Simon Morley, who is capable of traveling back and forth in time, must ensure the safety of a man carrying papers on the Titanic that might help avert World War I. |
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Copper SunTwo fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to |
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham-- 1963The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of |
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A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens classic novel "A Tale of Two Cities" set during the political turmoil of the French Revolution. |
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The Secret Life of BeesFourteen-year-old Lily and Rosaleen, the African-American woman who has loved her like a mother since she was four, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers and find a sa |
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The ForeshadowingHaving always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen |
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