Cat Winters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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A "spellbinding" tale of a headstrong young woman, a mysterious hypnotist, and a battle for freedom in early twentieth-century Oregon (School Library Journal).
Olivia Mead is a headstrong, independent young suffragist in an age that prefers its girls to be docile. It's 1900 in Oregon, and Olivia's father, concerned that she's headed for trouble, convinces a stage mesmerist to try to hypnotize the rebellion out of her. But the hypnotist,...
Olivia Mead is a headstrong, independent young suffragist in an age that prefers its girls to be docile. It's 1900 in Oregon, and Olivia's father, concerned that she's headed for trouble, convinces a stage mesmerist to try to hypnotize the rebellion out of her. But the hypnotist,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
A teenager navigates a world of disease and war in a novel that “deftly combines mystery, ghost story, historical fiction, and romance . . . atmospheric and eerie” (School Library Journal).
Finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award
In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish...
Finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award
In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish...
4) Odd & True
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Gilded Age sisters face terrible monsters and their own haunted past in this "thought-provoking, atmospheric, and utterly bewitching" YA novel (Booklist, starred review).
Growing up on their family's Oregon farm, Trudchen Grey believed every word of her older sister Odette's fantastical stories. But now that Tru's gotten older, she's starting to wonder if those tales of their monster-slaying mother were just comforting lies. There's...
Growing up on their family's Oregon farm, Trudchen Grey believed every word of her older sister Odette's fantastical stories. But now that Tru's gotten older, she's starting to wonder if those tales of their monster-slaying mother were just comforting lies. There's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old biracial girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired by Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'"--
6) Yesternight
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1925, Alice Lind steps off a train in the rain-soaked coastal hamlet of Gordon Bay, Oregon. There, she expects to do nothing more difficult than administer IQ tests to a group of rural schoolchildren. A trained psychologist, Alice believes mysteries of the mind can be unlocked scientifically, but now her views are about to be challenged by one curious child.
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five year old Ivy Rowan rises from her bed after being struck by the flu, only to discover the world has been torn apart in just a few short days. But Ivy's life-long gift--or curse--remains. For she sees the uninvited ones--ghosts of loved ones who appear to her, unasked, unwelcomed, for they always herald impending death. On that October evening in 1918 she sees the spirit of her grandmother, rocking in her mother's chair. An hour later,...