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At risk

1988
Amanda, an eleven-year-old girl, contracts a disease. As her family and their friends and neighbors struggle to come to terms with the disease, ordinary people are transformed into heroes and heroines.

A Chance in the world

an orphan boy, a mysterious past, and how he found a place called home
2012
Steve Klakowicz was taken from his mother at age three and went to live with a cruel foster family. He finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a stranger where he learns about different worlds and hopes that one day he can escape.

Here on earth

1998
March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.

Sorceress

2002
Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.

Little women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy

1994
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

Little Women and me

2011
Modern-day teen Emily March turns to Louisa May Alcott's famous book for a school assignment and finds herself mysteriously transported to the world of "Little Women," where she undergoes surprising changes.

The wordy shipmates

2008
An exploration of the Puritans that discusses their beliefs and practices and exploring how they have influenced modern politics.

Amy makes a friend

1998
Desperate for art lessons, Amy hopes to manipulate her friendship with two other girls to get what she wants.

Leave myself behind

2004
Seventeen-year-old Noah York tries to adjust to life in a new town, but as he helps his mother renovate their home, he finds himself becoming immersed in the past of a mysterious woman who disappeared decades earlier.

Lighthouses of New England

your guide to the lighthouses of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
2001
Photographs and text trace the history of lighthouses in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Long Island, discussing their technological evolution, the development of Fresnel lenses, their architecture, daily life for lighthouse keepers, and other related topics.

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