Ann Rinaldi, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-201294-6
Rinaldi's (The Second Bend in the River) latest excursion into American history is set at the close of the Civil War and focuses on the struggles doctors faced in obtaining cadavers to do research. As her readers will expect, the plot is fast-paced...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Scholastic Press $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-590-11744-9
In this novel inspired by the Confederate ransom of Hagerstown, Md., Rinaldi's (The Coffin Quilt) backdrop is as compelling as ever, but the narrator's undeveloped character lessens its intensity. The story begins in 1861, as 11-year-old Amelia...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Scholastic $13.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-590-46055-2
The powerful symbolism of a quilt named Trust supplies a strong send-off for the first of Rinaldi's new trilogy about a Salem shipping merchant family in America's early post-revolution years. Sisters Hannah, Abby and Thankful Chelmsford, driven...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Scholastic $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-43413-3
`` . . . And we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go.'' Thomas Jefferson's metaphor for slavery is dramatically brought to life through his illegitimate daughter (Rinaldi suggests) by a slave woman. In this thoughtful fictionalization, 19-year
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Holiday House $15.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0690-6
The theme of loyaltyto friends, family, country and one's beliefsare an involving integral part of this Civil War story. Susan, 14, of Richmond, helps the Southern cause by sewing and nursing the wounded, missing her father and trying not to rile...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Avon Books $2.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70138-4
Brie McQuade spray paints Miss Emily's house on a dare to prove she isn't a nerdand gets caught. Her answer to that and other problems in her life is to move to California to live with her mother, who left when Brie was a baby. PW found this book...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Holiday House $0 (249p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0603-6
Set in Trenton, N.J. during the American Revolution, this well-plotted historical romance has been written with an excellent feel for the period. Jemima (Jem) Emerson, 15, is constantly at loggerheads with her handsome, strict, Tory tutor, John Reid.
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Scholastic Press $16.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-439-07336-3
Rinaldi (Coffin Quilt; Wolf by the Ears) delivers another fast-paced Civil War adventure, this time about a Michigan girl who masquerades as a Union soldier and then becomes a Pinkerton spy. Readers will immediately like 16-year-old Sarah,...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (240p) ISBN 978-0-15-202015-6
Fanny McCoy, the protagonist and narrator of Rinaldi's (A Break with Charity; An Acquaintance with Darkness) tautly plotted historical novel about the infamous feuding families effectively portrays the clans' divided loyalties and cycle of violence.
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Harcourt Children's Books $16 (240p) ISBN 978-0-15-202430-7
Rinaldi (The Coffin Quilt) delivers another winning historical novel, this time turning to New Mexico in the 1870s. After her mother dies on the Santa Fe Trail, 13-year-old Lizzy Enders is deposited by her father in a Santa Fe convent school--without
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Scholastic $4.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-590-74259-7
PW described this historical novel about a frontier girl and her romance with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh as ""elegant and moving."" Ages 10-up. (May)
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Harcourt Paperbacks $6 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-202197-9
PW cited the ""impressive"" research and ""fast-paced and dramatic"" plot that make this a vivid account of the moral ambiguities surrounding body snatching--for medical research--at the close of the Civil War. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Ann Rinaldi, Author . Harcourt/Gulliver $6 (, $6 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-15-216450-8
Of this historical novel about the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, PW wrote, "Through homespun language, folk remedies, superstition and a vivid picture of a vengeful religion, Rinaldi skillfully paints the code of honor of Kentucky...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Scholastic $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-74258-0
Rinaldi (Keep Smiling Through; The Fifth of March) crafts an elegant and moving account of the budding romance between Shawnee chief Tecumseh and a young frontier girl, set against the events leading up to the War of 1812. As usual, Rinaldi's sense...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Harcourt Children's Books $13 (208p) ISBN 978-0-15-200768-3
Rinaldi (The Fifth of March; A Break with Charity) takes a break from early American historical fiction to explore the period of her own childhood, WWII. Expertly evoking the patriotic fervor on the home front as it permeates everything from scrap...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Scholastic $5.99 (323p) ISBN 978-0-590-44731-7
Oscie struggles with her stepfather as the Civil War rages on. Ages 12-up. (Nov.)
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-200353-1
Boredom and frustration in a small Puritan town provide fertile ground for a band of teenage girls to incite and nurture deadly mischief. Susannah English, caught between the desire to be a part of the group and her revulsion toward their wickedness,
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Harcourt Children's Books $13 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-200343-2
Historical events aren't as neat and tidy as they appear in history books, nor are they dissimilar from modern happenings (i.e., the Rodney King case), as Rinaldi ( A Break with Charity ) ably demonstrates in this painstakingly researched tale told...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Laurel Leaf Library $6.99 (249p) ISBN 978-0-440-22850-9
PW called this novel set during the American Revolution a ""well-plotted historical romance."" Ages 12-up. (May)
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Ann Rinaldi, Author Scholastic Paperbacks $6.99 (252p) ISBN 978-0-590-43412-6
The 19-year-old daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a slave woman faces conflicts concerning her lineage; PW praised this ``intelligent yet earthy history that lends insight into the complex feelings surrounding race relations.'' Ages 12-up. (Jan.)
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Ann Rinaldi, Author . Harcourt $17 (222p) ISBN 978-0-15-205117-4
Rinaldi's novel set at the turn of the 20th century imagines her grandparents' romance in diary format through the eyes of her grandmother, a then 15-year-old Rose. Rose loves her home on Saint Helena's Island, off the coast of South...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author . Harcourt/Gulliver $17 (240p) ISBN 978-0-15-216687-8
This often gripping but also melodramatic novel set just before the Revolutionary War explores Patrick Henry's tragic domestic life, from the point of view of two of his daughters. Patrick's wife, Sarah, is "mad"—in the...
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Ann Rinaldi, Author . S&S $16.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-689-85187-2
In this swiftly paced historical novel, Rinaldi (Girl in Blue) chronicles the life of Oney Judge, favorite "servant (they were never called slaves)" to Lady Martha Washington. By Oney's own admission in the prologue, as Lady Washington
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