Laura Amy Schlitz
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"Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm...
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"Rhaskos works in the stables. Worth less than a donkey, much less than a horse. But Rhaskos is clever and talented, and beloved of his mother?who has been forced away from her son but is willing to do anything for him. Melisto is a girl. Wealthy, privileged, intented for a stifling marriage and dangerous child-birth. But first she is to spend a season serving Artemis, goddess of the hunt, as one of her little bears?a season from which she may or...