The House of Fortune Middle Grade Twenty years ago it was

Twenty years ago it was a group of terrorists trained in Afghanistan and armed with box-cutters who commandeered four airplanes and flew them into buildings (and in one case a field) and claimed nearly three thousand lives

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Ada and her father

The House of Fortune Middle Grade Twenty years ago it wasAlive with the magic of 18th century Amsterdam, an enchanting stand alone companion novel to the New York Times bestseller The Miniaturist, which sold two million copies worldwide. Amsterdam, 1705. It is Thea Brandts eighteenth birthday. She feels ready for adulthood, but life at home is difficult. Her father Otto and her aunt Nella argue endlessly over money, selling off furniture to try to keep the family home. As catastrophe threatens to engulf the