cover image KEEPER OF THE DOVES

KEEPER OF THE DOVES

Betsy Cromer Byars, . . Puffin, $5.99 (121pp) ISBN 978-0-14-240063-0

In a boxed review, PW called this a "jewel-like novel. In tightly constructed scenes, the author slowly and fluidly unspools the small revelations that aid in the narrator's understanding of the [late-19th-century] world around her." Ages 8-12. (Feb.)