He grimly announced the dire diagnosis: the girls were bewitched! And then the accusations began. The doctor tried every remedy, but nothing cured the young Puritans. In the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. SLJ’s 100 Magnificent Children’s Books of 2011Ĭhicago Public Library Best of the Best 2011

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NCSS-Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012 It begins, “When I go, I will go with the horses/Look for me where the long manes/and the long grass are tossing together’’ and ends, “Do not look for me among the twittering birds./When I go I will go with the horses.Robert F. Georgess love of horses remained strong throughout her life. She was nominated for a National Book Award for her first book in 1968, “The Beasts of Never,’’ and wrote many reviews over the years for The New York Times Book Review. “I was splashed with yellow paint at a demonstration on lower Fifth Avenue and partially gassed in front of the Washington Monument.’’ “I was active in local and national political campaigns, civil rights organizations and a variety of now-defunct peace and feminist groups,’’ she wrote.

She went to New York and got a job in publishing with Golden Press for two years and then, “spent three months traveling around Greece and Italy honing her language skills,’’ she wrote.īack in New York, she worked as trade-publisher for Doubleday & Co. McHargue graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard in 1963 with a major in history and literature. “The world as I knew it was entirely predicated on words - their use and misuse, their dissection, accumulation and glorification,’’ she wrote in an autobiography for one of her publishers. She was precocious and a storyteller, even in kindergarten. She was often referred to as “Little G,’’ and, until her death, “G.’’ At 10 months, she posed for Squibb Cod Liver Oil.

She was born in New York City, the only child of Mac and Georgess (Boomhower) McHargue. Georgess McHargue was author of 35 books for children and young adults, some focused on archaeology, myth, and history.

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