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The canning season by Polly Horvath

Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past …

Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear

Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear

A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear

A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear

Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear

Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear

The luminaries by Eleanor Catton

A bold neo-Victorian murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. In 1866, a weary …

Silent spring by Rachel Carson

This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America.

The Parker inheritance by Varian Johnson

Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, …

The Parker inheritance by Varian Johnson

Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, …

Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery, Matthew D. Patterson

Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery, Matthew D. Patterson

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where …

Paradise lot by Eric Toensmeier

Tells the story of two single men who turned a backyard lot into a productive garden, with advice on setting …