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Kathleen Van Cleve

    Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve is an author whose works delve into profound human emotions and the complexities of interpersonal relationships. Her writing is characterized by penetrating psychological depth and an ability to render characters with remarkable realism. Through her unique style, she offers readers engaging and thought-provoking narratives. Her work explores universal themes of love, loss, and the search for meaning in life.

    Drizzle
    Susie King Taylor
    Never Caught
    Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge
    • Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      4.0(1242)Add rating

      Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life available as a young reader's edition!

      Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge
    • Never Caught

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.9(323)Add rating

      A revelatory account of the actions taken by the first president to retain his slaves in spite of Northern laws. Profiles one of the slaves, Ona Judge, describing the intense manhunt that ensued when she ran away.--NoveList.

      Never Caught
    • "Paints a vivid portrait of heroic Susie King Taylor, one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, who valiantly fought for the rights of her people, including establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people"--

      Susie King Taylor
    • Drizzle

      • 358 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Eleven-year-old Polly Peabody needs to make it start raining again. It rains every Monday afternoon on her family's rhubarb farm, until one Monday, when 1:00 P.M. passes without one raindrop. And then Polly's brother gets sick. Polly has to figure out how everything is connected and make it rain before her Aunt Edith sells the farm. Maybe with the help of her best friend, a talking rhubarb plant named Harry, Polly can face her fears and uncover her family's magical secret.

      Drizzle