Brett Harvey, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (230p) ISBN 978-0-06-016279-5
The women, aged 58 to 68 today, who reached maturity in the 1950s were more conflicted about becoming housewives than they let on, according to this colorful oral history. Harvey, a freelance journalist and children's book author, has organized the...
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Brett Harvey, Author, Deborah Kogan Ray, Author, Deborah Kogan Ray, Illustrator Holiday House $13.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0604-3
Elenore Plaisted was nine in 1889, when her family moved from Maine to the Dakotas. Later on, she wrote a retrospective diary of those years, which her granddaughter has now shaped into a story about a family's first year on the prairie. The first...
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Brett Harvey, Author, Deborah Kogan Ray, Illustrator Holiday House $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0638-8
Becky Moskowitz comes from Russia with her family in 1910 to live on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They have a grocery store and live upstairs in the same building. Becky mentions that they play in the middle of the street, that they draw...
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Brett Harvey, Author, Deborah Kogan Ray, Illustrator Holiday House $15.95 (39p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0684-5
Similar in style, tone and source to My Prairie Year, this draws on 19th century diaries in its simple exploration of the hardships and adventures of one American family's westward journey. Told from Cassie's point of view, this is a lively and...
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