New Releases by Hazel Hutchins

Jerry noticed that the grocer gave his charge customers candy on the days they paid their monthly bill, and he wished that his mother wouldn't pay cash. So he decided that he would keep the cash when he went to the store, charge the groceries, and get the candy when he had to pay the bill, and nobody would lose. But it wasn't as easy as Jerry thought to store all of the money.

Novel set in an isolated pearling community ; Philippinos, Chinese, Malays, Aborigines and white men.

A 16-year-old Maine boy is pressed into service on an English Man-of-War in the days of the Embargo Act.

"At fourteen Adrienne d'Ayen became the wife of Gilbert Lafayette. Separate strands of episodes and incident record the story of this daughter of France who married an aristocrat, saw him off to fight with Washington, endured the mounting horrors of Paris in the French Revolution, and preserved the unity of her family through voluntary imprisonment in Austria." Kirkus.