Elizabeth Winthrop

A rhyming celebration of hats that help create costumes for the Halloween parade.

Twelve year-old Grace and her best friend, Arthur, must leave school to work as doffers in the mill. Grace meets Lewis Hine, a reformer with a camera, who finds his way into the mill so that he can take pictures of kids like Grace and Arthur next to the enormous spinning frames that beat out the rhythm of their twelve-hour days. Grace becomes his secret ally.

A retelling of the old Russian fairy tale in which beautiful Vasilissa uses the help of her doll to escape from the clutches of the witch Baba Yaga.

Maggie wants to get rid of the monster that visits her room every night and accepts her mother's suggestion to simply ask the monster what it wants.

Between 1933 and 1935, a young Italian American girl living in North Adams, Massachusetts, corresponds with President Franklin Roosevelt about the conditions in her town, Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, and her own family's activities.

Lucy and her twin brother Henry take a trip to the park, where they each do their own thing, together.

Two young sledders bundle into their winter clothes and go down a snowy hill in a wild, whirling ride.

An illustrated retelling of the birth of Jesus.

One of the finest writers of her generation (Brad Watson), and author of three previously acclaimed novels, Elizabeth H. Winthrop delivers a brave new book that will launch her distinguished career anew. An incisive, meticulously crafted portrait of race, racism, and injustice in the Jim Crow era South that is as intimate and tense as a stage drama, The Mercy SeatThe Mercy Seat is a brutally incisive and tender novel from one of our most acute literary...