Flight to Freedom:
10 best books like Flight to Freedom: (Ana Veciana-Suarez): The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story, My Louisiana Sky, Other Bells for Us to Ring, Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany, Call Me Maria, Amelia's War, With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War, Dear Mom: A Sniper's Vietnam, Yankee Girl
The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp
| Author | Barry Denenberg |
| ISBN | 0590485318 |
After the time of the Pearl Harbor bombing many people in California couldn't trust the Japanese people. This book is based on a boy named Ben Uchida and what changed in his life during WWII. This book is basically the boy version of the Diary of Anne Frank. This story helps show a different side of WWII the...
| Author | S.D. Nelson |
| ISBN | 0810983990 |
Told from the Native American point of view, Black Elk’s Vision provides a unique perspective on American history. From recounting the visions Black Elk had as a young boy, to his involvement in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, as well as his journeys to New York City and Europe with...
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0440415705 |
Tiger Ann Parker is smart in school and good at baseball, but she's forever teased about her family by the girls in class. Tiger Ann knows her folks are different from others in their small town of Saitter, Louisiana. They are mentally slow, and Tiger Ann keeps her pain and embarrassment hidden as long...
Eleven-year-old Darcy hasn't lived in any one place long enough to have a best friend--until her family settles in Frenchtown and she meets Kathleen Mary O'Hara. Darcy is spellbound by Kathleen Mary's vivid tales of Catholicism. She shows Darcy a world beyond Frenchtown: a world of daring games and...
| Author | Ilse Koehn |
| ISBN | 0140342907 |
I'm not sure when I read this only that it was before I read the diary of anne frank & it moved me in an unusually stark & horrific way. I was so distraught by this book that I read pre-7th grade, that I made my Daddy read it as I considered him an expert on all things German & wanted him to tell me it...
| Author | Judith Ortiz Cofer |
| ISBN | 0439385784 |
A new novel from the award-winning author of AN ISLAND LIKE YOU, winner of the Pura Belpre Award.
Maria is a girl caught between two worlds: Puerto Rico, where she was born, and New York, where she now lives in a basement apartment in the barrio. While her mother remains on the island, Maria lives...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0590117459 |
Amelia’s War by Ann Rinaldi
The book is about a girl who want to do her part in the Civil War.
She doesn’t live in the 21century but back in the 1800’s so they live differently.
This book is good for teenagers because you can see what a girl about your age has to do back then during a War. The...
| Author | James Lincoln Collier |
| ISBN | 0440219833 |
Johnny made a promise to his father, who was wounded fighting for the South. He promised to take care of the family and not run off to fight. Without Pa, Johnny's family can barely scrape by. But when there's an offer to take his mules and wagon on a bold mission to supply the Rebel troops, Johnny can't resist....
Dear Mom: A Sniper's Vietnam
| Author | Joseph T. Ward |
| ISBN | 0804108536 |
In Vietnam's jungle war, only one group of men was feared more than death itself--the Marine Scout Snipers. . . .
The U.S. Marine Scout Snipers were among the most highly trained soldiers in Vietnam. With their unparalleled skill, freedom of movement, and deadly accurate long-range Remington...
| Author | Mary Ann Rodman |
| ISBN | 0374386617 |
Mississippi and integration in the 1960s
The year is 1964, and Alice Ann Moxley's FBI-agent father has been reassigned from Chicago to Jackson, Mississippi, to protect black people who are registering to vote. Alice finds herself thrust into the midst of the racial turmoil that dominates...
| Author | Pam Conrad |
| ISBN | 0064402061 |
"The prairie was like a giant plate, stretching all the way to the sky at the edges. And we were like two tiny peas left over from dinner, Lester and me."
Louisa loves the Nebraska prairie, the only home she's ever known. It's a lonely place, surrounded by miles of wild, flat grasslands, but it's the...
| Author | Enrique Flores-Galbis |
| ISBN | 1596431687 |
When Julian's parents make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away from Cuba to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation, the boys are thrust into a new world where bullies run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.
90 Miles to Havana is a 2011 Pura Belpre...
| Author | Margaret McMullan |
| ISBN | 0547076592 |
It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in.
People like the McLemores fear that Sam,...
| Author | Gilbert Morris |
| ISBN | 1602609071 |
From the beloved author of the bestselling House of Winslow series comes a new trilogy about the Civil War. Join Gilbert Morris as he explores the life of General Stonewall Jackson through the story of the fictional Yancy Tremayne. Raised among the Cheyenne, Yancy rejects the Amish community his father...
| Author | Tom Bodett |
| ISBN | 0375806873 |
"Bodett, the genial voice in those Motel 6 commercials, offers a page-turner set in the wilds of Alaska, and he clearly knows the taste of sea and storm, the face of the landscape, and the sound of the loons and the scent of salmon. In this sentimental but rousing tale, September Crane, 13, and her 12-year-old...
| Author | Sue Corbett |
| ISBN | 0525471200 |
Felix knows his dad was a famous baseball player in Cuba—and that his father risked everything to send Felix to America. But his mom won’t reveal anything else. When a team with Cuban players comes into town, Felix wonders if they knew his dad, and sneaks into their locker room to ask. That’s when...
| Author | Vicki Lewis Thompson |
Just get up and ride…
Much to his family's displeasure, Michael Hartford pens popular Western paperbacks. But despite his cowboy image, he's more Central Park West than Wild West. With a major photo shoot coming up, he'll need to be a cowboy—not just look like one! And Michael has only...
| Author | Sandra Hill |
| ISBN | 0062210440 |
A Viking to bed, not to wed!
Medana Elsadottir, known as the Sea Scourge, never planned to become a pirate, but there’s no denying her talent. Her female-only tribe has an island hideaway, food aplenty, goods to trade…everything except the means to breed. That’s where the strapping...
| Author | Carol Ericson |
| ISBN | 0373695349 |
Amy Prescott couldn't help but notice the sexy, wet-suited Navy SEAL who washed up on the beach. Nor could she overlook the burst of gunfire that followed his hasty introduction. Thankfully, Riley Hammond expertly shielded her from harm. Unfortunately, he landed her in the middle of his deadly covert...
And Then the Sky Exploded
| Author | David A. Poulsen |
| ISBN | 1459736370 |
When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends…somehow.
While attending the funeral of his great-grandfather, ninth-grader Christian Larkin learns that the man he loved and respected was a member of the Manhattan Project,...
The Case of the Creative Crime
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 0743437489 |
Four stars for what it is, not compared to great literature.
I would love to know who the ghostwriter is, because s/he just nails the old time style while simultaneously updating Nancy and the world she inhabits. We aren't even sure whodunit until the penultimate chapter, so it succeeds as a...
Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford
| Author | Donald Spoto |
| ISBN | 0061856002 |
New York Times bestselling author Donald Spoto has already brilliantly explored the lives and careers of numerous Hollywood stars and entertainment icons—Grace Kelly, James Dean, Alfred Hitchcock, and Marilyn Monroe, to name but a few. In Possessed, his subject is the inimitable Joan Crawford,...
| Author | C.J. Miller |
| ISBN | 0373278470 |
In this kingdom, not even the royals are immune to danger
With a sexy FBI agent posing as her suitor, Princess Laila of Qamsar is home for the wedding of her brother the Emir. In truth, the beautiful royal and Harris Truman are on an undercover mission: to find the infamous terrorist her brother...
| Author | Will North |
| ISBN | 0307451615 |
Newly divorced, Andrew Stratton lives in his head and not with his heart. He teaches architectural theory but has never built a building. He writes about “The Anatomy of Livable Places”– communities where form and material are in harmony–but has no sense of where he belongs. He is capable of...
| Author | Heather Graham |
| ISBN | 0373885733 |
In their new Keeper roles, these extraordinary women must balance the fate of the world with their desires….
Alessande Salisbrooke has been warned about the legend of the old Hildegard Tomb—how human sacrifices are being carried out by the followers of a shape-shifting magician. As...
