Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve est une auteure dont les œuvres explorent les émotions humaines profondes et les complexités des relations interpersonnelles. Son écriture se caractérise par une profondeur psychologique saisissante et une capacité à dépeindre des personnages avec un réalisme remarquable. À travers son style unique, elle offre aux lecteurs des récits captivants et stimulants. Son travail aborde des thèmes universels tels que l'amour, la perte et la quête de sens dans la vie.
"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.