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[2000]
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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After her brother joins the family in Philadelphia at the end of the Civil War, Addy wants to be with him as much as possible, so she is jealous when he starts spending time with her friend's cousin. Includes information about the life of African Americans in Philadelphia in the 1860s and a recipe for letter cookies.
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Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school's scapegoat. Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie...
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CENGAGE GALE volume 2018
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As a favor to the beautiful actress Mary Deschenes, Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer hires her eighteen-year-old son Allen Winslow as an aide for his 1876 campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne. Traveling west against his will, Allen finds himself in the company of Addie Grace Lord, sixteen, sister of one of Custer's regimental surgeons. The two fall in love, and it is with foreboding that Addie Grace watches Allen and her brother George ride...
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Pub. Date
c1999
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"In We Remember, twenty-five women born at the turn of the century speak of the wonder and shared wisdom that could come only from experiencing firsthand the most dramatic century of all time. This visually rich volume provides a rare glimpse of the complex feelings - the triumphs and frustrations - that have gone into the emergence of the modern American woman."--BOOK JACKET. "Filled with engrossing portraits of the famous and the little-known, We...
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