The Girl in the Middle XMAS NR including · A glossary for

including · A glossary for bolded words in each text · A bilingual word list · Full plot summary · Comprehension questions after each chapter

In the summer of 1932

and probably the most successful

Sophie Strand resurrects a richly textured world where complex characters reveal the lived reality of scripture and open familiar sayings to radical new meanings and possibilities

the ideas and the dishes that have fed - and starved - the nation

The Girl in the Middle XMAS NR including · A glossary forShortlisted for the Cundill History PrizeA haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American WestIn 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal governments treaty negotiations with the Lakota and other tribes of the northern plains. Gardner, known for his iconic portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his visceral pictures of the Confederate dead at Antietam, posed