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Patricia Clapp
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Patricia Clapp was born in Boston and attended the Columbia University School of Journalism. Her first novel, Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth, was a runner-up for the 1969 National Book Award for Children's Literature. Her other books include, I'm Deborah Sampson, King of the Dollhouse, Dr. Elizabeth, and Jane-Emily. She describes herself as primarily "a theatre person"; she has worked with her community theatre for over forty years and still writes and directs plays for children. The grandmother of ten and great-grandmother of one, Ms. Clapp lives in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
Book List in Order: 8 titles
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Constance; a story of early Plymouth
- 1968
- / General Fiction
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The story of Constance Hopkins, a passenger on the Mayflower, is told through her fictional journal and depicts her daily life, hardships, romances and marriage during the first years of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth....
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Jane-Emily
- Jun-1969
- / Gothic
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Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago. Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane’s grandmother’s house, ...
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King of the Dollhouse
- Jan-1974
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A tiny scurrying noise! Then . . . something races out of a shadowy corner of Ellie's room, gallops up to the dollhouse, and stops short. Whoa, calls the smallest sort of voice, and suddenly there is the Queen, gallant and beautiful, on mouseback.Ell...
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Dr. Elizabeth, the story of the first woman doctor
- 1974
- / General Fiction
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A biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor, written as if she herself were relating her struggles to become a physician and open the field of medicine to women....
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I'm Deborah Sampson: A Soldier in the War of the Revolution
- 1977
- / General Fiction
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Relates the experiences of the woman who disguised herself as a man in order to enlist and fight in the American Revolution....
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Witches' Children
- 1982
- / General Fiction
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During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of Salem suddenly find themselves subject to fits of screaming and strange visions, some believe that they have seen the devil and are the victims of witches....
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The Tamarack Tree
- Sep-1986
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Orphaned at thirteen, Rosemary Leigh was transplanted from England to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1859. Four years later, to distract her from her fear as cannonballs batter the besieged city, Rosemary writes about what she has been through.
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I'm Deborah Sampson
After experiencing severe hardship during her young life, fifteen-year old Deborah Sampson has finally found true love with eighteen-year old Robbie Thomas. Before the two of them can get married, Robbie feels obligated to fight for his country again...