
"As her parents restore an old house, a young girl hears stories about the people who used to live there, and she imagines what their home was like.... Dreamy, light-filled watercolor paintings extend the quiet, poetic text with pictures that connect...
A touching story about friendship and the preservation of memory.
"I bet it was sad for Miss Opal to watch her belongings leaving in the hands of neighbors and strangers, but I knew the auction was Miss Opal's own idea.
A rusty bl...
Desperate, pregnant, and abandoned by her new husband just weeks after immigrating to Boston, 21-year-old Mina Fleming works as a housemaid for the Director of the Harvard College Observatory. It's 1879. Science and industry are about to usher in the...