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Claudie Wells believes everyone has a talent - everyone except for her. She's growing up in New York City's Harlem neighborhood during the 1920s. Her world is filled with writers and poets, painters and sculptors, actors and dancers, singers and musicians. Claudie wants more than anything to be a person whose imagination can fly instead of a person whose feet are stuck on the ground. She tries dancing, singing, painting, and even baking, but none...
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Things have changed for Samantha. She leaves quiet Mount Bedford for the bustle of New York City and the company of Aunt Cornelia's ten-year-old twin sisters, Agnes and Agatha. This pair is good at getting into mischief, and at bringing Samantha with them. When the three of them visit Grandmary's summer home, their adventure leads to danger on Goose Lake -- the same lake where Samantha's parents drowned! Then word comes that Samantha's neighbor Nellie...
10) Rebecca 1914
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Presents six stories featuring Rebecca Rubin, a Jewish girl growing up in 1914 New York City.