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Janet Taylor Lisle
When Ruben and Jed find a dead body on the Rhode Island shore, they are certain it has something to do with smuggling liquor. Suddenly, the boys find themselves caught…
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Fifteen-year-old Mary Potter can’t understand why her younger sister Elsie won’t visit their beloved violin teacher in the hospital, recovering from an attack in her home. But Elsie discovers why…
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In the spring of 1942, young Robert and his family are living out the war in Rhode Island where Nazi subs are torpedoing U.S. ships. When violence erupts in his…
Motherless Olivia and Nellie go to live with their elderly Great-Aunt Minty, who knows little about children, but a lot about her overgrown garden. Then one day, Olivia finds an…
As Hillary works in the miniature village, allegedly built by elves, in Sara-Kate’s backyard, she becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate’s real life inside her big, gloomy house with…
Originally published: New York: Orchard Books, c1989.
After three kittens are carelessly thrown off the back of a truck, none of the feral highway cats knows what to make of them. But there are bigger issues to…
Newbery Honor winner Janet Taylor Lisle’s novel about a pivotal summer in two girls’ lives explores the convictions we form, the judgments we make, and the values we hold. The…
Soon after Robert arrives at his grandfather’s home in Rhode Island in 1942, he learns of a German painter living in the woods who raises the community’s suspicions, and of…
