Julie Hearn, Author . S&S/Atheneum $16.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-689-87690-5
British author Hearn makes a memorable American debut with this tightly woven tale of a witch hunt. She pits 15-year-old Grace, the daughter of a hypocritical Puritan minister, against Nell, the granddaughter of a midwife and healer who has taken...
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Julie Hearn, Author . Atheneum/Seo $16.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-689-85734-8
Twelve-year-old Tom is determined to make the best of a visit to his grandmother's townhouse in a seedy area of London. From his childhood visits there, he remembers a "gap" in her basement, and when Tom leaps over, he finds himself in...
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Julie Hearn, Author . S&S/Atheneum $17.99 (355p) ISBN 978-1-4169-2506-4
Capturing her audience with her first sentences, Hearn (Sign of the Raven
) paints an almost lush picture of a seamy 19th-century London as she describes two ladies from the “Ragged Children’s Welfare Association” who “pick...
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