Barbara Garland Polikoff, Author . Holiday $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1817-6
Seventh-grader Luz Sorrento movingly relates the challenges of being uprooted from Chicago to her mother's native Puerto Rico in Polikoff's (Life's a Funny Proposition, Horatio
) ambitious novel. Being 13 is not easy for Luz, especially...
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Barbara Garland Polikoff, Author Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1972-8
Although only a slim 103 pages, this tender tale of loss and love contains as much heartfelt emotion as one twice as long. Two years after his father's death from lung cancer, Horatio, 12, feels pretty well settled into his new life in the country...
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Barbara Garland Polikoff, Author Boswell Publishing $0 (238p) ISBN 978-0-9670658-0-9
For 25 years, Jane Addams, social reformer, pacifist, Nobel Prize winner and founder of Chicago's Hull House settlement for inner-city immigrants, has not been accorded a full-length biography. Now there are two: Gioia Diliberto's A Useful Woman (For
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