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by Eleanor Henderson
Published Sep 2018
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by Clare Vanderpool
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsPowerful in its simplicity and rich in historical detail, Clare Vanderpool's debut is a gripping story of loss and redemption.
by David Mitchell
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsA novel about a 13-year-old boy's perilous trek through schoolyard trials, his budding interest in girls and the simmering tension between his parents.
by Jonathan Coe
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsAs the world appears to self-destruct around them, four teenage friends hold together to navigate the choppy waters of a decidedly ambiguous decade - the 1970s.
by John Grisham
Published Dec 2001
Read ReviewsA Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas.
by Jimmy Carter
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsCarter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex - Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation.
by William Faulkner
Published Jan 1995
Read ReviewsA complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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