Barbara Caruso
143) I am Lavina Cumming
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While staying with relatives in California after the death of her mother, ten-year-old Lavina sees the arrival of the automobile and experiences the great San Francisco earthquake.
145) Steal away
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In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.
146) The moon of the deer
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A young buck weathers a hurricane that strikes the coast of Connecticut in September.
149) The moon of the owls
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A great horned owl's stirrings to mate carry him across a forest in January in the Catskill Mountains, where he observes the nocturnal activities of other animals.
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In 1838, thirteen thousand Cherokee were forced to leave their homeland in the Southeast and walk 900 miles to present-day Oklahoma. Hunger, cold, fatigue, and disease threatened their very survival. Their grueling relocation trek, the Trail of Tears, takes on new immediacy and meaning with this stunning work of fiction. Maritole loses not only her home and her settled life in North Carolina but also many of the people closest to her. A chorus of...