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Ada and Mary find themselves thrown together to study under the same tutor. While each girl is intelligent in a very different way, the pair become friends and form the clandestine Wollstonecraft Detective Agency to capture clever criminals.
Ages 8-12…
This novel based on the childhood friendship of the authors Truman Capote and Harper Lee takes readers to Depression-era Monroeville, Alabama, where friends Tru (Truman) and Nelle (Harper) search for mysteries in their small town. When a local drugstore is broken into, Tru and Nelle use their detective skills to search for the culprit. Along the way, they discover a lot more about their town than they had planned to….
Twelve-year-old Nora has always dreamed of going to Paris with her grandmother, but when her grandmother dies it seems like Paris is gone with her–until Nora finds three airline tickets in a trunk, and sets out to persuade her mother to use them.
Ages 8 – 12….
The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the “Red Scare” era, and the feminist movement.
Ages 12 and up….
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker’s classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world in which he lives.
Ages 10 – 12….
