Brothers Far from Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates

8 best books like Brothers Far from Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates (Jean Little): Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914, Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918, Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865, Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America, The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists, The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection

Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914

Author	Carolyn Meyer
ISBN	0439129087

This was the book that launched my love affair with Russia. I read it at age 12, fell in love with the Romanov family and Russia, and promptly went out and bought a Teach Yourself Russian in Three Months set (with accompanying CASSETTES, which lets you know how long ago this was!). Ten years later, I graduated...

Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918

Author	Lois Lowry
ISBN	0545144698

Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry brings a brand-new, beautiful diary to the Dear America series!

Suddenly orphaned by the Spanish flu epidemic in the fall of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother, Daniel, of Portland, Maine, are taken by...

Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota

Author	Marion Dane Bauer
ISBN	0439220270

"Land of the Buffalo Bones" is the diary of Mary Rodgers, known as Polly. Promising religious freedom and fertile land, Polly's father, Reverend Rodgers, moves their Baptist community from England to the Minnesota prairie. After a treacherous journey across the sea and across this country, Polly...

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865

Author	Joyce Hansen
ISBN	0439555051

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy a Freed Girl is about a young African American girl, Patsy, who lived during the time when slavery was abolished after the Civil War.

The book was okay. I can see why I was attracted to reading this series when I was younger. The whole novel is...

Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students

Author	Anders Henriksson
ISBN	0761122745

Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams

Did You Know:
Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!"
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three"
Rasputin was a pheasant...

Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

Author

Ruth Gruber

"The words leaped at me from The Washington Post. 'I have decided,' President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced, 'that approximately 1,000 refugees should be immediately brought from Italy to this country.' One thousand refugees....For years, refugees knocking on the doors of American consulates...

The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists

Author	David Wallechinsky
ISBN	0688031838

Lists. Dontcha love 'em? You've got an item, then another item, and then some more items! All the items are similar, but at the same time, hey, they're different. And they come in an order, which may or may not mean something. Wow.

I'm afraid I'm already running out of ideas for explaining why lists...

The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection

Author	Wendy Northcutt
ISBN	0452284015

The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection brings together a fresh collection of the hapless, the heedless, and the just plain foolhardy among us.  Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety...