Tag: historical fiction
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Tree Ear is a boy who lives in a small village on the west coast of Korea in the middle of the 12th century. He spends most of his time scavenging for scraps around local trash heaps and sleeps under a bridge at night. His friend is Crane Man, an old man with a disabled…
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It is the 17th century in Cartagena of the Indies (modern day Columbia), a time and place in which the slave trade is alive and well. Thirteen year old Calepino, orphaned by his mother who died on a slave ship, finds himself in comfortable circumstances. The noblewoman Dona Isabel has taken him in and…
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During this entire book, I was awaiting for two things: 1) for Sam to die and 2) for the protagonist Tim to pick a side in the Revolutionary War. But Sam doesn’t eat it until page 208! And Tim never makes up his mind whether he wants to be a Tory or a Rebel. The first half…
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