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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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In 1915, “missing” heiress Victorine Berryman, aka “Bella Mae Goodwin,” along with her film star best friend, arrives in Hollywood where she experiences the magic of the movie business as well as its dark side as she figures out who she truly wants to be.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
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Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break out of poverty in Chinatown. She gains admission to a prestigious finishing school through cunning and bribery and soon discovers that getting in was easy: carving a niche among the spoiled heiresses proves more difficult. When the earthquake strikes, Mercy and her classmates are forced to a survivor encampment where her quick-witted leadership rallies them to help in the tragedy's aftermath.
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"New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known for busting up organized crime--but the next day, Viviana...
5) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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YA Genres: Historical Fiction (Alternate Histories & Historical Fantasies)
YA Genres: Supernatural & Paranormal
YA Genres: Supernatural & Paranormal
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As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia. Magnolia knows nothing of her racial heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the...
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