New Releases by Kathleen Karr

In 1855, twelve-year-old Gideon and his ne''er-do-well father work their way down the Mississippi in a second-rate vaudeville act about life in ancient Egypt accompanied by a mummy with a very special secret.

Living a precarious existence on the Lower East Side of New York in 1882, eleven-year-old street urchin Jack McConell joins forces with eight-year-old runaway Mandy Kerrigan, and the two of them leave the city to seek a new life

From the moment Rass King rescued her from the canal, Chessie had trouble feeling she owed this brash bargeman. Motherless at four and the sole support of her father, Chessie needs help from Rass over and over again as she takes a barge down the C & O Canal in 1850.

Maggie, living on a farm in western Ohio and longing to know how to read, falls in love with the peddler who brings what her heart most desires: a McGuffey''s reader!