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Summary: Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: An Italian boy loses his family after arriving at Ellis Island in the early 20th century. While searching for a clue as to where his family has gone, he gets caught up with a gang of boys who steal to stay alive. When unexpected betrayal leaves him scrambling, it will take all the street smarts he's gained to find a way back to his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1996
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Summary: Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli which reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2019
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Summary: In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2012
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Summary: An indelible portrait of prejudice and promise, friendship and loyalty, a daring look at race and class in pre-Civil Rights America, played out in the lives of two remarkable men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2015
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Summary: Marrying a Scottish warrior, Lady Macbeth must use all her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive his hostile, suspicious court but unbeknownst to her, he has occult secrets of his own and a prophecy that girds him like armor, making her magic even more dangerous as it threatens the order of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024