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Thee, Hannah!
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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… |
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Reckless revolution
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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… |
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Livability
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Jon Raymond |
A tired man, struggling to overcome the loss of his wife in a car accident. Two old friends, hoping to rediscover their connection on a trip to the woods. A screenwriter hoping to hear news about the… |
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Alternative Service in Canada During World War II
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John Aron Toews |
This book describes Alternative Service, a service which developed as a new phenomenon in Canadian history during World War II. It was a form of national service that the Canadian Government required… |
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Benjamin West and his cat Grimalkin
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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. |
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A colonial Quaker girl
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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… |
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From slavery to freedom with Harriet Tubman
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Deborah Hedstrom-Page |
In Philadelphia, a fourteen-year-old Quaker boy helps Harriet Tubman in her work with the Underground Railroad. |
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Lucretia Mott
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Lucile Davis |
A biography of the nineteenth-century Quaker minister who was an important participant in the causes of abolition and women's rights. |
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Soon be free
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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… |
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Tucker's Claim
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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 … |
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What to Do, Blue? (Blue's Clues)
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Angela C. Santomero |
Hmm...Blue doesn't know what to do. All her friends are busy. But watching her friends gives Blue an idea -- and she soon comes up with something fun to do, all by herself! |
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Making friends: Cabbage Patch Kids.
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Kathleen N. Daly |
Summary: With the help of Rachel Marie, Otis Lee and Rebecca Ruby come to appreciate each other's differences and become friends. |
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Falling to heaven
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Jeanne M. Peterson |
In 1954 Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community and travel to the small Tibetan town of Shigatse where they soon find companionship with their neighbors, Dorje and Rinchen, and … |
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Avery's Battlefield
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Deanna K. Klingel |
Avery and his dog, Gunner, have a good life in Kanawha Valley -- a loving family, a prosperous farm, and a warm community of friends. But when the long unrest between the North and the South ignites … |
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The heart has its reasons
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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… |
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Avery's crossroad
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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… |
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William Penn
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Rebecca Stefoff |
Focuses on the struggles of the founder of Pennsylvania who promoted the Quaker religion and spent his lifetime preaching the right of each individual to choose his own faith. |
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This Book is Full of Spiders
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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… |
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John Bright
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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… |
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The last runaway
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Tracy Chevalier |
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join th… |
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