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(0)Molly Gloss
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A thoroughly modern woman (for the early 1900s) who supports her five boys by writing adventure stories, Charlotte Bridger Drummond joins a search party for a missing child, gets lost herself, and "is rescued by a band of elusive, quasi-human beasts."--Jacket
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"A reading group favorite, The Jump-Off Creek is the unforgettable story of widowed homesteader Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s. “Every gritty line of the story rings true” (Seattle Times) as Molly Gloss delivers an authentic and moving portrait of the American West. “A powerful novel of struggle and loss” (Dallas Morning News), The Jump-Off Creek gives readers an intimate look at the hardships...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Dazzle of Day is a brilliant and widely celebrated mixture of mainstream literary fiction and science fiction. Award-winning author Molly Gloss turns her attention to the frontiers of the future, when the people of our over-polluted planet Earth voyage out to the stars to settle new worlds, to survive unknown and unpredictable hardships, and to make new human homes. Specifically, it is a story about Quakers, people who have grown up on a ship...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The village behind the great gates is a place filled with fear as outside these gates reside the monsters and giants of the stories he heard of since he was a boy. When Vren, confiding in his family about his ability to do things with his mind, is outcast from his family and village as one of the shadowed, people with extraordinary powers, he expects to die. Lost and confused about who or what he is, Vren finds is something altogether different:...