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Audience: Middle School
Rating: B+
Synopsis:
Young Conor Broekhart’s life has revolved around flight. From his birth in a hot air balloon, to the obsessive inventions he and his tutor construct, Conor is determined to build the first flying machine. He’s lucky enough to live on [...]

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Audience: 10 and up
Rating: B-
Synopsis:
Rachel Sheridan loves her life in Africa where her parents are missionaries and run a hospital and school. But when both of her parents die from influenza, Rachel is taken in by the scheming Pritchards, who involve her in their money-making schemes and send her away to England. [...]

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Audience: Young Adult
Rating: A-
Synopsis:
This story goes far beyond the confines of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Lisa Klein’s creative retelling, Ophelia is much more than a discarded pawn in Hamlet’s quest for revenge. Klein’s Ophelia is a wonderfully real heroine, torn between love and fear for what the man she loves has [...]

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