Kate Hannigan. Little, Brown, $17 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-40351-1
In the summer of 1859, a recently orphaned girl named Nell is left with her Aunt Kitty in Chicago, her sole living relative. Less than keen on caring for a “gangly urchin,” Kitty immediately begins looking for other living arrangements for 11-year-ol
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Kate Hannigan, illus. by Alison Jay. Calkins Creek, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62979-453-2
Hannigan presents an invigorating account of the life of Belva Lockwood, taking readers from her childhood in Niagara County, N.Y., to her career as one of the first women lawyers in the U.S. to her 1884 run for president (“Are women not worth the...
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Kate Hannigan, illus. by Brooke Boynton Hughes. Disney-Hyperion, $16.99 (288) ISBN 978-1-4231-7830-9
Fourth-grader Willow lives for summer vacations on Lake Michigan with her extended family, including her cousin Delia. This year, Willow and Delia’s Aunt Rosie is getting married, but the girls think they’re too old to be flower girls, especially in
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Kate Hannigan, illus. by Rebecca Gibbon. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-68437-377-2
In this swiftly paced picture book adventure, Hannigan traces the 1889–1890 circumnavigation of the globe undertaken by two intrepid women journalists: “eager and energetic” Nellie Bly (1864–1922) and “refined and dignified” Elizabeth Bisland (1861–1
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