Crows & Cards
10 best books like Crows & Cards (Joseph Helgerson): The Homeschool Liberation League, Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial, Buddha Boy, The King of Mulberry Street, Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices, The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West, Echoes of an Angel: The Miraculous True Story of a Boy Who Lost His Eyes but Could Still See, The Old Brown Suitcase: A Teenager's Story of War and Peace, Torn from Troy, The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
The Homeschool Liberation League
| Author | Lucy Frank |
| ISBN | 0803732309 |
After a summer at Wilderness Camp, thirteen year-old Katya decides that she absolutely cannot go back to school. At school she can’t eradicate invasive alien plants, go on foraged-food-finding missions, or just be herself. Her parents, despite being “school kind of people,” are willing to...
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0375840478 |
The year is 1925, and the students of Dayton, Tennessee, are ready for a summer of fishing, swimming, some working, and drinking root beer floats at Robinson’s Drugstore. But when their science teacher, J. T. Scopes, is arrested for having taught Darwin’s theory of evolution in class, it seems...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0142402095 |
The kids at school call Jinsen “Buddha Boy”—he wears oversize tie-dyed dragon T- shirts, shaves his head, and always seems to be smiling. He’s clearly a freak. Then Justin is paired with him for a class project. As he gets to know Jinsen and his incredible artistic talent, Justin questions his...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0385746539 |
In 1892, nine-year-old Dom’s mother puts him on a ship leaving Italy, bound for America. He is a stowaway, traveling alone and with nothing of value except for a new pair of shoes from his mother. In the turbulent world of homeless children in Manhattan’s Five Points, Dom learns street smarts, and...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0823418537 |
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more....
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061344311 |
"Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth." So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.
Abandoning a career as a young steamboat...
When Ben Underwood became blind at the age of two, anyone would have thought he faced a life full of hardship and uphill challenges—a world full of things he’d never be able to see and activities he’d never be able to enjoy. But as far as his mom, Aquanetta Gordon, was concerned, nothing was impossible...
| Author | Lillian Boraks-Nemetz |
| ISBN | 1553800575 |
The Old Brown Suitcase, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both nationally and internationally, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of Slava, a young girl who survived the Holocaust against all odds. At age fourteen, Slava comes...
| Author | Patrick Bowman |
| ISBN | 1927401607 |
Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel, we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the eyes of Alexi, a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the...
| Author | Peter Goodchild |
| ISBN | 1580810578 |
I love the film Inherit the Wind (the 1960 version with Spencer Tracy) so I was pleased to find this play about the Scopes trial as one of the 2016 SYNC audiobook offerings. While I enjoyed this audiobook, it didn't come across as a play but more as a full cast recording of a book due to the exposition of a "narrator"...
| Author | Janet Lee Carey |
| ISBN | 1606840096 |
“I want that soul sack,” he said suddenly.
“What?” the witch asked around the scrap of meat she was chewing.
“I want it so no one I love will ever, ever, ever have to go inside again.”
“It’s not for mortal hands to have.” The witch spat out a bit of bone.
“You know magic....
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0399247815 |
3.5 stars
Audio version - narrated by the incredible Katherine Kellgren!!!
In this, the fifth installment in the Enola Holmes mystery series, Enola must help solve a mystery entangling her dear old landlady, Mrs. Tuppper. And the start of the mystery dates all the way back, some several...
| Author | Deborah Wiles |
| ISBN | 0152060685 |
Twelve-year-old House Jackson—star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars—has been sidelined for a whole sorry year with a broken elbow. He's finally ready to play, but wouldn't you know that the team's only game of the year has been scheduled for the exact same time as the town's 200th-anniversary...
| Author | Tim Binding |
| ISBN | 0385751575 |
A compelling story full of magic and music.
Sylvie Bartram lives alone with Mr. Jackson the dog and her eccentric composer father, who invents strange and wonderful musical instruments. One day she returns from school to find a message left in toothpaste on the bathroom mirror: her father...
The Adventures of Caterwaul the Cat: Feline Pie
| Author | Damon Plumides |
| ISBN | 1937084191 |
Original fairy tales are delightful, and The Adventures of Caterwaulis just that, filled with humorous dialogues and phrases that will keep the reader spellbound.
Caterwaul the cat jumps from the frying pan into the fire when he escapes the clutches of the Witch of Red Moon Forest and moves...
| Author | Joyce Moyer Hostetter |
| ISBN | 1590786068 |
Now that Daddy has returned from fighting Hitler and Ann Fay is home from the polio hospital, life should get back to normal. But Ann Fay discovers she no longer fits easily into old friendships and Daddy has been traumatized by the war. Her family and social life are both falling apart. Ever responsible,...
| Author | Emily Winfield Martin |
| ISBN | 0375869956 |
New York Times bestselling author Emily Winfield Martin brings a strange and wonderful place to life with her unique style of both art and writing.
What do an onion-headed boy, a child-sized hedgehog, and a tattooed girl have in common? They are all orphans at Oddfellow's Orphanage! This...
Eva Ibbotson 3-in-1: Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13 & Island of the Aunts
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| ISBN | 0525467769 |
Which Witch?
Arriman the Awful, the Wizard of the North, needs a wife, and, naturally, the only woman a wizard can marry is a witch. But which witch will Arriman choose? Warty, wicked, or just plain rude-witches galore enter his spell-casting competition. Poor Belladonna doesn't have a chance....
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0763675547 |
I was drawn to this book about the First World War, as I was interested to find out more. In general, if I want to dip my toe into a subject I start with a book written for children and then, once I have the basic facts, I can decide if I want to delve deeper. I have read very little about the First World War, whereas,...
'This boy has bought me. This white boy who don't even look as old as I am. He owns me body and soul and my worth has been set at six hundred dollars.'
Samuel's an educated boy. Been taught by a priest. He was never supposed to be a slave.
He's a good boy too, thoughtful and kind. The type of boy who'd...
Rapacia: The Second Circle of Heck
In the second installment of the popular series, Heck, Dale E. Basye takes Milton and Marlo Fauster on a journey that is as clever, as laugh-out-loud funny, and as satisfying as the first.
Welcome to Rapacia, where the greedy kids go . . .
When Milton escapes from Heck in a soul balloon...
| Author | G.P. Taylor |
| ISBN | 0399242589 |
London is picking up the pieces after a near-Apocalypse—a comet has just missed the Earth, leaving the city in chaos.The streets have taken on a frenzied air, and swindlers and circus performers have come to town to take advantage of the confusion. In this time of uncertainty, only the blind boy oracle,Tersias,...
| Author | William Durbin |
| ISBN | 0385746520 |
When the Soviet Union invades its tiny neighbor Finland in November 1939, Marko volunteers to help the war effort. Even though his leg was weakened by polio, he can ski well, and he becomes a messenger on the front line, skiing in white camouflage through the forests at night. The dark forest is terrifying,...
