Daughter of Spies
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As a child, Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, along with her five brothers, was raised to revere the tribal legends of the Alsop and Roosevelt families. Her parents’ marriage, lived in the spotlight of 1950s Washington where the author’s father, journalist Stewart Alsop, grew increasingly famous, was not what either of her parents had imagined it would be. Her mother’s strict Catholicism and her father’s restless ambition collided to create a strangely muted and ominous world, one that mirrored the whispered conversations in the living room as the power brokers of Washington came and went through their side door. Through it all, her mother, trained to keep secrets as a decoding agent with MI5, said very little. In this brave memoir, the author explores who her mother was, why alcohol played such an important role in her mother’s life, and why her mother held herself apart from all her children, especially her only daughter. In the author’s journey to understand her parents, particularly her mother, she comes to realize that the secrets parents keep are the ones that reverberate most powerfully in the lives of their children.
2023 Finalist, Wishing Shelf Awards, UK, Adult Nonfiction.
Longlisted for the 2022 Memoir Magazine Book Awards
2022 Bronze Medal Winner, Memoir Category, Living Now Awards
2022, Runner Up, Memoir Category, New England Book Festival
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The Castle in the Attic
Winner of The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and The California Young Readers Medal.
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- Read Aloud Teacher Set: C.I.A. Unit of Study: Epic Fantasy – The Castle in the Attic, 4.2 is the second unit in a series of five designed for fourth grade. Within this unit, you are provided with scripted lessons for instructional read-aloud that incorporate reading, writing, language, listening, and speaking standards.
William has just received the best present of his life. It’s an old stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a finger-high knight to guard the gates. It’s the mysterious castle his housekeeper has told him about, and even though William is sad she’s leaving, now the castle is his!
William is certain there’s something magical about the castle. And sure enough, when he picks up the tiny silver knight, the leaden figure comes alive in his hand!
- An ILA-CBC Children’s Classic
- Winner of the California Young Reader Medal
- The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award
- Listed for 23 state book awards
The audiobook of The Castle in the Attic is available here and the sequel, The Battle for the Castle, here..
“Winthrop creates a believable imaginary world that nevertheless relates to the real world.” – Madeleine L’Engle, award winning author of A Wrinkle in Time.
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