Massachusetts

Blue Diary

A small Massachusetts town is turned upside-down when it is discovered that a respected resident is wanted for the rape and murder of a teenage girl fifteen years earlier.

City and town life, fiction, Fugitives from justice, Legal stories, Massachusetts

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Candle in the Wind

Maureen Crane Wartski

On the night of a party celebrating his acceptance into Harvard, Harris Mizuno, a Japanese-American teenager, is shot dead by an elderly white man who mistakes him for an intruder when Harris asks to

Japanese Americans, Juvenile fiction, Massachusetts, Racism, White supremacy movements

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The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty

1709 or 10-1801, African Americans, Fortune, Amos, Juvenile literature, Massachusetts

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The Rag and Bone Shop

Robert Cormier

Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.

Criminal investigation, Detectives, fiction, Homicide, Massachusetts

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Lydia Bjornlund

This book examines the founding and first years of the Massachusetts colony, describes the daily life of the people in the colony, and explains how the colony became an integral part of the eventual f

1600-1775, Colonial period, History, Massachusetts, United States

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Witch Child

Celia Rees

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, History, Juvenile fiction, Massachusetts

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