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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Thee, Hannah!	Marguerite de Angeli	Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing wh…	OL112820W
Reckless revolution	Lynne Hansen	Twentieth-century teenager Mindy Gold, seventeenth-century minister Jonathan Hartthorne, and twenty-second-century "time cop" Jasper time travel to 1775 Philadelphia, where they face rabble-rousing W…	OL11751340W
Benjamin West and his cat Grimalkin	Marguerite Henry,Wesley Dennis	With his beloved black cat Grimalkin as his constant companion, the young Quaker boy Benjamin West discovers and develops his talent as an artist.	OL1480365W
A colonial Quaker girl	Sarah Wister	Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionar…	OL14854422W
From slavery to freedom with Harriet Tubman	Deborah Hedstrom-Page	In Philadelphia, a fourteen-year-old Quaker boy helps Harriet Tubman in her work with the Underground Railroad.	OL14866234W
Soon be free	Lois Ruby	Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1…	OL14955280W
Tucker's Claim	Sarah McCarty	Tucker McCade has known violence his whole life: orphaned in a massacre, abused as a "half-breed" child, trained as a ruthless Texas Ranger, he's learned the hard way that might makes right. So even …	OL15110472W
The heart has its reasons	Birdie L. Etchison	Emily Drake has long considered herself a spinster. Emily, the simple Quaker, wants only a simple life. But things get complicated when her dashing friend Kate introduces her to handsome Ben Gallo…	OL15859604W
Avery's crossroad	Deanna K. Klingel	Avery's skills as a doctor and his dog Gunner's friendly personality make the pair a welcome sight to the soldiers in the Civil War hospitals. But mending wounds is not the only challenge Avery faces…	OL15932735W
This Book is Full of Spiders	David Wong	"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti Originally released as an…	OL16769308W
John Bright	William Cash	"John Bright was one of the greatest British statesmen of the 19th century: in a series of Punch cartoons in 1878, Bright featured alongside Disraeli and Gladstone as the three greatest politicians o…	OL16772548W
Heartland courtship	Lyn Cote	"When Quaker Rachel Woolsey nurses a former Civil war soldier back to health, he agrees to help her achieve her dream of having her own bakery and a homestead in Pepin, Wisconsin"--	OL18187719W
A Quaker book of wisdom	Robert Lawrence Smith	"The most valuable aspect of religion," writes Robert Lawrence Smith, "is that it provides us with a framework for living. I have always felt that the beauty and power of Quakerism is that it exhorts…	OL1867379W
The thieves of Tyburn Square	Dave Jackson	In 1817 a teenage brother and sister are relieved from the abuses of Newgate Prison in London by the prison reform efforts of Quaker minister Elizabeth Fry.	OL19479566W
Detective Nosegoode and the music box mystery	Marian Orłoń	At first glance, Mr Ambrosius Nosegoode seems to be a perfectly ordinary older gentleman. After retiring, he has moved from the big city to a small town, where he spends his days growing radishes, pl…	OL19740243W
Diary of Sally Wister	Sarah Wister	Presents excerpts from the diary of Sally Wister, a 16-year-old Quaker girl who moved from Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War. This book presents excerpts from the diary of Sally Wister, a si…	OL19979160W
My best friend's funeral	Roger W. Thompson	"There's a certain kind of lost a boy feels in this world without a father. Tim felt it. I felt it. And we realized our only way out would be together. In an openhearted memoir of faith on the fringe…	OL19994910W
The extraordinary Suzy Wright	Teri Kanefield	Children are taught much about the men who shaped early America, but history-shaping colonial women remain largely unknown and undiscussed.The Extraordinary Suzy Wright sets about to change that, tel…	OL20026659W
The little bookshop of Lonely Hearts	Annie Darling	Once upon a time in a crumbling London bookshop, Posy Morland spent her life lost in the pages of her favourite romantic novels. So when Bookend's eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies and leaves the shop t…	OL20911518W
Towards tragedy/reclaiming hope	Brian Phillips,Rachel Muers,Richard E. Sturm,Douglas Gwyn	"This book offers new perspectives on the idea of the 'death of tragedy', taking England and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in particular as a case study. Chapters focus on the origins of…	OL20946987W