Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
9 best books like Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule (Harriette Gillem Robinet): The River Between Us, Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate, Across Five Aprils, War Horse, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Red Moon at Sharpsburg, Bull Run, Indian Boyhood, Moon Plane
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0142403105 |
The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to make ends meet and hold the dwindling Pruitt family together. Then one night a mysterious girl arrives on...
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
| Author | Helen Prejean |
| ISBN | 0679751319 |
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified...
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| ISBN | 0425182789 |
Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."
I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way...
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 0439796636 |
A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.
In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges toward the enemy, witnessing the horror of the battles...
| Author | Jean Lee Latham |
| ISBN | 0618250743 |
Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings...
| Author | Rosemary Wells |
| ISBN | 0670036382 |
Award-winning author Rosemary Wells lays bare the senseless devastation of war in this stunning novel. As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn'tknow she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia...
| Author | Paul Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0064405885 |
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book
In this brilliant fictional tour de force, which the New York Times called "a deft, poignant novel," Newbery Medal-winning author Paul Fleischman re-creates the first...
| Author | Charles Alexander Eastman |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Peter McCarty |
| ISBN | 0805079432 |
Can airplanes fly to the moon? This one can! Above the clouds an airplane flies into the sky. On the ground a small boy looks up. A young boy sees a plane overhead and imagines himself in it, traveling all the way to the moon. What does he see on his way? With characteristically spare prose, Caldecott...
