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Emily

by Michael Bedard

DickinsonEmily1830-1886Juvenile literature.

In a yellow house in Massachusetts, lives a woman who hasn't ventured out in 20 years. The young girl across the street knows her reclusive friend as the American poet Emily Dickinson. Cooney's detailed oil paintings enhance Bedard's moving portrait of Dickinson's extraordinary private world.

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Book data: Open Library