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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Snow baby Snow baby Katherine Kirkpatrick News of Marie Ahnighito Peary's birth on an icy bay in northern Greenland spread around the globe, shocking Victorian society. The daughter of prominent American parents had been born in a tarred lod… OL15839942W
Keeping the good light Keeping the good light Katherine Kirkpatrick Bored with living in a New York lighthouse at the turn of the twentieth century, sixteen-year-old Eliza seeks a teaching position away from home. OL16066605W
Escape across the wide sea Escape across the wide sea Katherine Kirkpatrick After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, a young Huguenot boy and his parents travel on a slave ship to West Africa, then to the Caribbean, and finally to New York, where they help fou… OL1818887W
Redcoats and petticoats Redcoats and petticoats Katherine Kirkpatrick Members of a family in the village of Setauket on Long Island are displaced by the Redcoats and serve as spies for the Revolutionary Army of George Washington. OL1818890W
The voyage of the Continental The voyage of the Continental Katherine Kirkpatrick In 1866, young orphan Emeline McCullough leaves her mill job in Lowell, Massachusetts, to head for Seattle, Washington, aboard the steamship Continental, writing in her diary about the intrigue, dang… OL1818892W
Trouble's Daughter Trouble's Daughter Katherine Kirkpatrick Grade 7 Up-In this rich and engrossing fictional account of actual events, nine-year-old Susanna is captured by the Lenape after witnessing the massacre of her family and spends the next four years a… OL1818894W