At age 14 Nakahama Manjiro was shipwrecked on a deserted island with a few others from his fishing boat off the coast of Japan. This happened in 1841.
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Book Review: Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool
This novel takes place in Kansas during the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
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Book Review: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
This book about medieval village life is a truly unique reading experience. There’s a lot of variety and information in the text.
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Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray – Linda Book Lady’s Review :: Spoiler Free
A young boy’s travels through 13th century England in search of his father and his dog.
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Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle – Linda Book Lady’s Review :: Spoiler Free
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings is a lovely, lively, bi-cultural poetic memoir about a girl growing up in Los Angeles. Her mother is Cuban and her father’s family came from the Ukraine.
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