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Author: Marilyn Sachs
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Published: 2001-03-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780595175925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the final book in a series about a poor family living in the Bronx in the 1940’s, two sisters come to grips with their own envy, resentment and love for each other.
Author: Marilyn Sachs
Publisher: Backinprint.com
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780595175895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first in a series of highly praised books about a poor, Jewish family living in the Bronx in the 1940’s. Amy moves into a new neighborhood, and learns to choose the right kind of friends, and the consequences of lying.
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0763679437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.
Author: Marilyn Sachs
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Published: 2001-01-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780595175901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the second of three books about a poor family living in the Bronx in the 1940’s, Laura, the older sister, has to cope with the pleasures and pains of going off to camp.
Author: Amy Laura Hall
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0802839363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The book is replete with photos and advertisements from popular magazines from the 1930s through the 1950s."--Jacket.
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2021-03-09
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1536211737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Newbery Medal–winning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives readers a virtuoso performance in verse in this profoundly original epic pitched just right for fans of poetry, history, mythology, and fantasy. Welcome to ancient Greece as only genius storyteller Laura Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, “ringed by a restless sea,” live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She’ll marry and be tamed—the curse of all highborn girls—but risk her life for a season first to serve Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos—Amber and Clay—never meet in the flesh. By the time they do, one of them is a ghost. But the thin line between life and death is just one boundary their unlikely friendship crosses. It takes an army of snarky gods and fearsome goddesses, slaves and masters, mothers and philosophers to help shape their story into a gorgeously distilled, symphonic tour de force. Blending verse, prose, and illustrated archeological “artifacts,” this is a tale that vividly transcends time, an indelible reminder of the power of language to illuminate the over- and underworlds of human history.
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2012-08-28
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0763662461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNewbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller — an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would do Dickens proud. The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisini’s act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Seeing his chance to make a fortune, Grisini accepts and makes a splendidly gaudy entrance with caravan, puppets, and his two orphaned assistants. Lizzie Rose and Parsefall are dazzled by the Wintermute home. Clara seems to have everything they lack — adoring parents, warmth, and plenty to eat. In fact, Clara’s life is shadowed by grief, guilt, and secrets. When Clara vanishes that night, suspicion of kidnapping falls upon the puppeteer and, by association, Lizzie Rose and Parsefall. As they seek to puzzle out Clara’s whereabouts, Lizzie and Parse uncover Grisini’s criminal past and wake up to his evil intentions. Fleeing London, they find themselves caught in a trap set by Grisini’s ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it’s too late. Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitz’s Victorian gothic is a rich banquet of dark comedy, scorching magic, and the brilliant and bewitching storytelling that is her trademark.
Author: Marilyn Sachs
Publisher: Belgrave House
Published: 2011-08-21
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 1610845722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVeronica Ganz is a bully. She has beaten up everybody in all her classes and has never been challenged…until little Peter Wedemeyer, who only comes up to her shoulder, moves into the neighborhood. Taunting, teasing and always one step ahead of her mighty fists, Veronica must find a way to teach him who is boss. Or maybe Veronica could learn something from Peter… Juvenile Fiction for ages 9-12 by Marilyn Sachs; originally published by Doubleday
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2010-03-02
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0763652156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"People throw the word 'classic' about a lot, but A Drowned Maiden's Hair genuinely deserves to become one." — Wall Street Journal Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister choose Maud to take home with them, the girl is as baffled as anyone. It seems the sisters need Maud to help stage elaborate séances for bereaved, wealthy patrons. As Maud is drawn deeper into the deception, playing her role as a "secret child," she is torn between her need to please and her growing conscience -- until a shocking betrayal makes clear just how heartless her so-called guardians are. Filled with tantalizing details of turn-of-the-century spiritualism and page-turning suspense, this lively historical novel features a winning heroine whom readers will not soon forget.
Author: Laura Joffe Numeroff
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen she grows taller than Mark, Amy is afraid he doesn't want to be best friends anymore.
