Month: December 2013
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The Plot in Five Sentences or Less: During the Summer of Love in 1967 in the Haight District of San Francisco, Joanne falls in love with a hippie named Martin. Their relationship develops as Joanne watches her family and world change around her. Her sister Denise enters a loveless marriage and is sexually harassed at…
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The Plot In 5 Sentences or Less: Bitty is a canary that lives in the town of Coalbank Hollow, West Virginia in 1931. Caged with other canaries in a boy’s room, the birds are daily taken to the mines and used as methane and carbon monoxide detectors. The mines are dangerous for man and bird…
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The Plot in 5 Sentences or Less: Georgie Burkhardt is a 13 year old girl living with her mom and grandfather in Placid, Wisconsin in the 1870’s. When the book opens, Georgie is mourning the death of her older sister Agatha whose body has turned up miles away near Dog Hollow. The body is too…
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