Sheri Holman
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-year-old beauty in an elegant blue dress sells her body to feed her only love: a fragile baby boy. When the surgeon Henry Chiver offers Gustine a different kind of work, she hopes to finally change her terrible circumstances. But Chiver was recently implicated in the famous case of Burke and Hare, who murdered beggars and sold their corpses for medical research....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
His private life shattered amid rumors of his mother's witchcraft activities, Eddie Alley leaves his Depression-era Virginia hometown to begin a television career in New York and finds the past returning years later when he offers shelter to a homeless teen.