by Xianna Michaels | Jun 16, 2016 | Books
This heartfelt saga in verse form is about five generations of women’s journeys from Russia’s persecuting pogroms of the 1890s to America during the 2000s, including Ellis Island and New York’s Lower East Side sweatshops. The story is broken up into five parts, one...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 16, 2016 | Books
flower A verse narrative follows the fortunes of a Jewish family through five generations after it immigrates to the United States. In 1892, a Russian Jewish couple suffer a horrifying loss when their baby is murdered by Cossacks in a pogrom. They send their two...
by Xianna Michaels | Aug 12, 2014 | Books
books Mindel and The Misfit Dragons: A Magical Tale by An Ancient Hand is a magical, medieval verse fairy tale imaginatively told by Xianna Michaels. This is the story of a brave Jewish girl living in a castle where it is very hard to keep the Sabbath and where...
by Xianna Michaels | Aug 10, 2014 | Books
bookreview.com Mindel and The Misfit Dragons by Xianna Michaels is a beautiful fairy tale told in verse about a little girl of eight who has a serious problem to deal with and manages to solve it beautifully with the aid of three rather unorthodox dragons. To begin...
by Xianna Michaels | Jul 17, 2014 | Books
Books I love this book! Mindel is a wonderful book about a smart and a wise-beyond-her-years girl who is determined to save her family home, Castle Draconmere. I think this book is remarkable on so many levels. Thematically, the book brings together medieval folklore...
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