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Marissa Moss, . . Harcourt/ Silver Whistle, $7 (, $7 each ISBN p) ISBN 978-0-15-216325-9
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Reviewed on: 05/28/2001
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 56 pages - 978-0-15-202025-5
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- The Name Game!Marissa MossFirst there was Amelia, then Max, and now Daphne, the worry-prone narrator of Moss's third diary-style series, Daphne's Diary of Daily Disasters. Readers will quickly realize that Daphne isn't Continue reading »
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- Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War HeroMarissa MossIn one of two noteworthy picture-book biographies of this Civil War figure out this spring (the other being Carrie Jones's Sarah Emma Edmonds Was a Great Pretender), Moss and Hendrix focus on Continue reading »
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