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1 review
Mary Francis Shura

Scholastic, 1989

Big dog plus little brother equals trouble
I thought that the book was okay. Kate is an eleven-year-old girl with a younger brother, James, who is about half as old as she is. Since she is so much older than her brother, she is often made responsible for him when he is not with his usual baby-sitter. Kate is resentful of her obligation to look after her brother, especially since he tends not to mind her. The trouble starts when Kate's ...

Winter Dreams, Christmas Love (Point)

29 reviews
Mary Francis Shura

Point, 1992

Holiday Tradition
I purchased this book in the winter of my 7th grade year. The story made such an impact on me at that time in my life that it quickly became a favorite. I have continued to re-read the book every Christmas, and it has become my own holiday tradition. Now, at the age of 25, my Christmas holiday just doesn't seem complete without my yearly read of this innocent love story. I have read the story ...

Darcy (Sunfire No. 32)

4 reviews
Mary Francis Shura

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1989

Exciting and well written!
Darcy is a rebelious teen that get's everything she wants until a terrible hurricane srikes homes, families, and the people she loves. Is the man Darcy loves o.k?

Gabrielle Sunfire (Sunfire, No 24)

7 reviews
Mary Francis Shura

Scholastic, 1987

An unusual choice for Sunfire
I have read and enjoyed all Sunfires to a certain degree. I really enjoy this one because it isn't the usual choice for a YA historical. If they hadn't chosen such an unusual setting, many Sunfire readers would have been cheated of an interesting less chronicled slice of history. I see the writers point in having Gabrielle on land for so long, growing up learning her lesson, etc etc. But it was a ...

Diana (Sunfire, No 29)

2 reviews
Mary Francis Shura

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1988

Cool book!
Diana is the daughter of wealthy Americans living in New Orleans in the early 1800s. Most of their neighbors are French Creoles. When the United States buys the Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans becomes an American City. Many of Diana's Creole neighbors are angry. But Diana has her own trouble. She must chosse between the two men that love her: a rich Creole and a young man in the Louis and Clark ...

Gentle Annie

15 reviews
Mary Francis Shura

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1994

J.S.'S Review
I think gentle Annie is a very good book. On a scale from 1-10 I would give it a 9, because it is a very good book it has a good beginning, a good middle, but it kind of leaves you hanging at the end. The genre is historical fiction, but it's based on a real person named Anna Blair Etheridge. The setting is Detroit Michigan, but then Annie was told she was moving to Milwaukee Wisconsin with her ...

The Shop on Threnody Street
Mary Francis Shura

Warner, 1972

Attracted as a child by two very lifelike dolls in a shop window, Liza Quentin is told that they represent real children, Katya and Nikolas Lvov, who had disappeared in an orphanage fire and are presumed dead. But the shop owner, Sophia, believes that they are still alive and guards the Lvov fortune for them. Their story facinates Liza. Years later, when she hears that Katya is alive and has found Sophia, Liza returns to Threnody Street, eager ...

The season of silence

1 review
Mary Francis Shura

Atheneum, 1976

each spring, I make a point of reading this
The novel begins in March, when Susie Spinner, a seventh grader comes down with strep throat and must stay in bed for more than a month. After recovering, she finds that everything around her has changed--her sister is angry and decides to leave home, and her best friend is now dating the school bully, Trevor, who's determined to make Susie's life miserable. Realizing the loneliness of her ...