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Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertrude are five sisters growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1912. The book follows them through a year of their childhood, as they deal with mundane chores, find joy in eating candy in bed and collecting used books from their father's junk shop, recover from scarlet fever, and celebrate Jewish holidays such as Purim and Sukkot as well as the ...
The Online Books Page lists over 2 million books [3] and has several features, such as A Celebration of Women Writers and Banned Books Online. The Online Books Page was the second substantial effort to catalog online texts, but the first to do so with the rigors required by library science. It first appeared on the Web in the summer of 1993 ...
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Brewster Kahle , [ 5 ] Alexis Rossi, [ 6 ] Anand Chitipothu, [ 6 ] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud , [ 6 ] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive , a nonprofit organization .
The Downtown book introduced more unpleasant aspects of Lower East Side life, such as poverty, disease, and hunger, to which Taylor's editor objected in a book for children. [2]: 59 All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown would not be published until 1972, after Taylor's original editor at Wilcox & Follett retired. [2]: ch.12 Taylor's book A Papa Like ...
The Friendship is a children's novella by Mildred Taylor. Published in 1987, it is set in 1933 in Mississippi and deals with the unfair treatment of African Americans . Summary
Get ready Swifties — a new batch of Taylor Swift-inspired novels are on their way. PEOPLE can exclusively share the covers for two new books inspired by the pop icon, publishing this fall from ...
Taylor Swift fans who simply can’t get enough of the global superstar can get even more of a fix in a new book about the singer. While Swift was Time magazine's 2023 person of the year, 2024 is ...
The Land is a novel written by American author Mildred D. Taylor and published in 2001 by Scholastic. It is the sixth and penultimate book of the Logan Family saga that began with Song of the Trees (1975). It is a prequel to the whole series, recounting the life of Cassie Logan's grandfather, Paul-Edward, as he grows from a nine-year-old boy ...