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Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language

10 best books like Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language (Janet Benge): A Year Down Yonder, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment, Dragon's Gate, A Long Way from Chicago, Snow Treasure, The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War, Tales of the Kingdom, Secrets at Cedar Cabin, Rules of the Road, My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage

A Year Down Yonder
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0142300705
Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not.



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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
AuthorJeanne Wakatsuki Houston
ISBN0553272586
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp—with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton...
Dragon's Gate
AuthorLaurence Yep
ISBN0064404897
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle.

In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields,...
A Long Way from Chicago
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0142401102
"I don't think Grandma's a very good influence on us," Mary Alice said.

Every August, Joey Dowdel and his kid sister Mary Alice spend a week at their Granny's house.

She was so big and the town was so small. She was old too, or so we thought -- old as the hills. And tough! She was tough as an...
Snow Treasure
AuthorMarie McSwigan
ISBN0142402249
In the bleak winter of 1940, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lundstrom's tiny Norwegian village and held it captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated--until Uncle Victor told Peter how the children could fool the enemy. It was a dangerous plan. They had to slip past Nazi guards with nine...
The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War
AuthorAlbert Marrin
ISBN0689312091
I love Albert Marrin. He has a great style that presents all the facts in a conversational, easy tone, without talking down. I've learned a lot of history through him already.

'The Yanks Are Coming' isn't any different. It's an engaging look at both the personal life of the Doughboy and the decisions...
Tales of the Kingdom
AuthorDavid R. Mains
ISBN0891915605
These classic allegorical tales are ones I grew up reading, and they continue to be meaningful to me now as an adult and someone who can share them with the children around me. I have just taken my Wed. night Bible class of 1st - 3rd graders through this book and they all became fans. It is easy to draw out Biblical...
Secrets at Cedar Cabin
AuthorColleen Coble
ISBN0718085868
Her mother lied about her identity and her husband wasn’t who she thought he was—can Bailey even trust herself anymore?

Running for her life in the wake of her mother’s murder, Bailey Fleming escapes to the only place she can think of—a remote, dilapidated cabin in Lavender Tides....
Rules of the Road
AuthorJoan Bauer
ISBN0552550361
Meet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5'11" at 16 years old, Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to stand out in the crowd for all the wrong reasons. But that doesn't stop Madeline Gladstone, the president of Gladstone's Shoes 176 outlets in 37 states, from...
My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage
AuthorElizabeth Borton de Treviño
ISBN1883937515
What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican señora in nineteen-thirties provincial Monterrey? She finds herself sometimes hilariously coping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining, and dramatic Latin emotions. It is like stepping...
Keeping Score
AuthorLinda Sue Park
ISBN0618927999
Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesn't play baseball—but at almost ten years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all the players' statistics and understands the subtleties...
Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes
AuthorDave Jackson
The Jackson's tell the stories of 15 Heroes of the Christian faith. A black and white pencil illustration precedes each biography. 3 short stories about the individual then illustrate their virtues. Some virtues are repeated across several individuals. A Bible verse about the virtue and a discussion...
Moonshiner's Son
AuthorCarolyn Reeder
ISBN0689855508
Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbids the production and sale of alcoholic beverages, Tom is determined to be a good apprentice. He is, after all, a moonshiner's son. His father has raised moonshining to an art, and Tom wants nothing more...
An Age of Extremes 1880-1917
AuthorJoy Hakim
ISBN0195153340
For the captains of industry--men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford--the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers,...
World War II: The Rest Of The Story And How It Affects You Today, 1930 To September 11, 2001
AuthorRichard J. Maybury
ISBN0942617436
All my kids will be reading this, as I think its challenge to the "mainstream" interpretations of World War II is invaluable. However, I hope my kids all have their internal B.S. detector going, because Maybury isn't immune. Maybury makes important points but can't resist innuendo (like telling us...
A History of US: Book 7: Reconstructing America 1865-1890
AuthorJoy Hakim
ISBN0195153324
Covering a time of great hope and amazing change, Reconstruction and Reform is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaring across the country. New cities sprang up across the plains, and a new and different American West came into being: a land...
A History of U. S.: War, Peace & All That Jazz
AuthorJoy Hakim
8Y, Review 7, 224 pages, 4/28/2016

History is an intriguing part of us. We can learn from it, and we can know what mistakes (as mankind) we made. The book A History of US: War, Peace, and All That Jazz: 1918-1945, written by Joy Hakim, deals with a time period where we had both the good times and the...
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