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Dancing to Freedom : the True Story of Mao's Last Dancer
School Library Journal Gr 3-5- A poignant memoir of a boy caught in the difficulties of life in Maoist China, this is the author's own story of how he was given a chance to break the bonds of his bleak life and become an international star. First told for adults in the bestseller Mao's Last […]
Duel!
Kirkus Reviews: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had much in common, yet their feud led to a duel that left one dead and the other forever discredited. Both had difficult childhoods, both fought heroically in the American Revolution and both rose to high positions in the new government. Hamilton was a signer of the Constitution […]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Kirkus Reviews: Painstaking but never boring recreation of a sensational 1860 murder brings to shivering life the age of the Victorian detective. The Road Hill case served as fodder for the emerging detective genre taken up with relish by such authors as Dickens, Poe and Wilkie Collins. It perplexed detectives at the time and was […]
The Mutiny On the Bounty
School Library Journal Review: Gr 3?6?In flowing text, illustrated with striking single- and double-page paintings and smaller panels, O'Brien retells the story of the Bounty's fateful voyage and William Bligh, the ship's brilliant but harsh, unyielding captain. The book includes a map showing the route of the voyage, a diagram of the vessel, and a […]