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1) Nemesis
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Roth's "Nemesis" is the story of a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.
2) Odd & true
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, Odette returns in 1909 after a two-year absence, promising to rescue her disabled sister, Tru, from the monsters they were taught to believe in.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello's life is changed forever. It is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled with guilt, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly gives up her budding career as a nurse and ends her engagement to the love of her life, unable to live a lie. Instead, she turns to the baby's father for help and agrees to marry him, moving to the small, rural town of Hickory, North Carolina. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is...
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