Beth Kanell

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.
Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, wher...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Shawna and Thea are working together on a math project for their eighth-grade class. But the numbers don't add up, and they make a startling discovery -- the secret room in the basement of Thea's house, an old Vermont inn. The code on the walls makes...

• Apr-2018
• / Historical
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When Alice Sanborn and best friend Jerushah cross paths with a bounty hunter in rural northern Vermont, the teens stage a daring rescue for former slave Sarah Johnson -- but winter weather, politics, and challenges of mountain life bring more danger....

• Jun-2021
• / Historical
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Alice Sanborn, seventeen years old in October 1852, expects Abolitionist political operative Solomon McBride to court her. Surely he visits for more than her insight and family connections in the Vermont farming village of North Upton! When Almyra Al...

• Sep-2024
• / General Fiction
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Home-brewed medicines, a mysterious family of women making them, and a threat to the local funding of the Abolition movement: 15-year-old Almyra Alexander struggles with all of these, as well as adapting to the rough, unpolished life in a northern Ve...