A young black boy discovers that the mother he never knew was white and spends an unforgetable summer with his white grandmother in New York City, an experience which has a profound effect on him.
Recounts Anne Hutchinson's struggle with the Puritan Church over its rigid theocratic control of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, her trial for heresy and sedition, and banishment from the colony.
Recounts Anne Hutchinson's struggle with the Puritan Church over its rigid theocratic control of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, her trial for heresy and sedition, and banishment from the colony.
Due to the housing shortages after WWII, nine-year-old Josie Hobbs and her family are crowded into a one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment where their ill-tempered landlady won't allow pets any larger than a turtle. When Josie writes a letter to the editor of the local newspaper about their poor living conditions, the landlady gives the Hobbs family a ...
A matter-of-fact account of Mary Shelley's life before and after the fateful party, hosted by Lord Byron, at which he challenged his guests to write a ghost story. Her most famous creation and its effects on English literature are also closely examined.
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