Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve is een auteur wiens werken diep ingaan op menselijke emoties en de complexiteit van interpersoonlijke relaties. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een indringende psychologische diepgang en een vermogen om personages met opmerkelijk realisme neer te zetten. Door haar unieke stijl biedt ze lezers boeiende en tot nadenken stemmende verhalen. Haar werk verkent universele thema's als liefde, verlies en de zoektocht naar betekenis in het leven.
"Paints a vivid portrait of heroic Susie King Taylor, one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, who valiantly fought for the rights of her people, including establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people"--
A revelatory account of the actions taken by the first president to retain his slaves in spite of Northern laws. Profiles one of the slaves, Ona Judge, describing the intense manhunt that ensued when she ran away.--NoveList.
Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life available as a young reader's edition!
Eleven-year-old Polly Peabody needs to make it start raining again. It rains every Monday afternoon on her family's rhubarb farm, until one Monday, when 1:00 P.M. passes without one raindrop. And then Polly's brother gets sick. Polly has to figure out how everything is connected and make it rain before her Aunt Edith sells the farm. Maybe with the help of her best friend, a talking rhubarb plant named Harry, Polly can face her fears and uncover her family's magical secret.