Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain
7 best books like Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain (Russell Freedman): The Sheltering Sky, The Devil's Arithmetic, Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere, Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics, The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot!, Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson, A Tale Dark & Grimm
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 0141023422 |
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa, The Sheltering Sky is at once...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0142401099 |
I wish I could say I liked this book. I thought I would. I know it's critically acclaimed and a well-known story. But it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
The book is meant to educate young people about the Holocaust, but it had a lot of historical inaccuracies. The idyllic shtetl world at the beginning...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0316393827 |
The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean.
On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.
They knew...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0805098763 |
Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot—the Latinos featured in this collection come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive...
The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot!
| Author | Scott Magoon |
| ISBN | 1442468661 |
A classic tale with a timeless message gets a hugely hilarious twist in this eBook with audio.
He’s big. He’s funny. He’s not real. Or IS he?
This clever twist on “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is told from the point of view of an unexpected narrator and, through snappy text and lighthearted...
Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson
What kind of life preparation does the Lord give the men He will one day call to be prophet? And what are the lessons to be learned from such a life? From being raised in a home without the foundation of the gospel to the early days of his marriage and the stress of medical school to his last open-heart surgery...
| Author | Adam Gidwitz |
| ISBN | 0525423346 |
In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses,...
