Elizabeth Gray Vining Books
Adam of the Road
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A Newbery Medal WinnerAwarded the John Newbery Medal as "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" in the year of its publication. "A road's a kind of holy thing," sa...
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Adam of the Road (Puffin Modern Classics)
Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel throughout thirteenthcentury England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. But when Nick is stolen and his father disappears, Adam suddenly...
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Mr. Whittier.
A biography of the nineteenth-century Quaker poet stressing his deep involvement in abolition, women's suffrage, and other human rights, with emphasis on the articles and poems he wrote in defense...
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The Taken Girl
An orphan girl taken on as helper in a Quaker household that includes John Greenleaf Whittier becomes involved in the anti-slavery movement in Philadelphia.
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