Winters Cat
1) Odd & True
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Gilded Age sisters face terrible monsters and their own haunted past in this "thought-provoking, atmospheric, and utterly bewitching" YA novel (Booklist, starred review).
Growing up on their family's Oregon farm, Trudchen Grey believed every word of her older sister Odette's fantastical stories. But now that Tru's gotten older, she's starting to wonder if those tales of their monster-slaying mother were just comforting lies. There's...
Growing up on their family's Oregon farm, Trudchen Grey believed every word of her older sister Odette's fantastical stories. But now that Tru's gotten older, she's starting to wonder if those tales of their monster-slaying mother were just comforting lies. There's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sixteen-year-old biracial girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired by Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches as desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort, but she herself has never believed in ghosts. During her bleakest moment, however,...