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Book of the Day: Took- A Ghost Story

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I was sent a copy of Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn   Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn Release Date: 2015-09-15 “Folks say Old Auntie takes a girl and keeps her fifty years—then lets her go and takes another one.”   Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn’t believe Brody Mason’s crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster’s Hill with Bloody Bones, her man-eating razorback hog. He figures Brody’s probably just trying to scare him since he’s the new kid . . . a “stuck-up snot”…

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Book of the Day: Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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I was sent a copy of Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti   Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Release Date: August 4, 2015 What happens when a person’s reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary’s controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with…

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