Two girls who keep their ears open and make good use of their knowledge play a part in the story of the Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania in 1778.
Alice Turner Curtis (1860-1958) was an American writer of juvenile historical fiction.
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A Little Maid of Ticonderoga
At the Sansom Street Oyster House, he meets Paula Henderson, a beautiful and deceptively soulful waitress who is the most overqualified bar maid in all the city—and perhaps the most alluring.
As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret Mayfield is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.
This story of " A Little Maid of Old New York" tells of the time when British soldiers were in control of that city, and describes the adventures of a loyal little American girl, Annette Vincent, and the Tory girl who was her dearest friend ...
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search ...
This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed.
... Kyle Cooper, a fellow Arch Homes resident–drug-dealer–thug. Kool Kyle, as he was known in the neighborhood, should have been Nelson's ticket out of the electric chair. Thanks to the Tipper, Kyle served as the prosecution's star witness ...
One autumn day Jebediah and I were challenged to a throwing contest by two boys from Arch Street, Horace Fink and Godfrey Hale. I am afraid that Horace was a disagreeable boy with big ears, and Godfrey Hale had a weepy eye and liked to ...