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Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the award-winning author of several books for young readers, including Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850, winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal. She lives in Moscow, Pennsylvania. Annika Maria Nelson studied printmaking at the University of... show more

Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the award-winning author of several books for young readers, including Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850, winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal. She lives in Moscow, Pennsylvania. Annika Maria Nelson studied printmaking at the University of Vienna in Austria and at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She lives in Southern California.
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YA Fanatic
YA Fanatic rated it 9 years ago
This surprised me. I really enjoyed the audio for this one. Its very factual but flows well like a fiction story even though it is nonfiction. I really didn't know anything about this time period before reading this or even the name Mary Mallon. Mary Mallon has been a cook for years, and a good o...
By Singing Light
By Singing Light rated it 9 years ago
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YA non-fiction about Mary Mallon. Bartoletti is pretty good at not including guesswork as fact (pet peeve!) and she shows both why the authorities took certain actions with Mallon, and why that might be a problem. All in all, a good non-fiction for solid middle grade readers.
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 10 years ago
I listened to this novel and I was taken back to the innocence that was swept away so suddenly and so fierce from the individuals who had to walked the streets during this time. These individuals believed so heartedly that their new ruler was the answer and having read many stories about this time p...
Degrees of Affection
Degrees of Affection rated it 11 years ago
I read this for a YA class several years ago and was amazed at the information and the telling of it. I read the book version, full of pictures that help recite the tale, and thought that for my re-read I'd try the audiobook. And while I couldn't seem to get the enhanced CD functions to work, I foun...
Seriously, Read a Book!
Seriously, Read a Book! rated it 11 years ago
I was not an easy adolescent to rear. Or maybe I was just typical. My teenage years definitely featured more than a few slammed doors and threats to never talk to my parents again, along with the occasional 'I wish xxx's parents were my parents.' Now just imagine if these types of disagreements ende...
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