Give Me Liberty
8 best books like Give Me Liberty (L.M. Elliott): The Bronze Bow, The Honest Truth, Waiting for Normal, Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941, Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, My Immortal, Oliver Twist
| Author | Elizabeth George Speare |
He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Samuel 22:35)
The Bronze Bow, written by Elizabeth George Speare (author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond) won the Newbery Medal in 1962. This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old...
| Author | Dan Gemeinhart |
| ISBN | 0545665736 |
In all the ways that matter, Mark is a normal kid. He's got a dog named Beau and a best friend, Jessie. He likes to take photos and write haiku poems in his notebook. He dreams of climbing a mountain one day.
But in one important way, Mark is not like other kids at all. Mark is sick. The kind of sick that...
| Author | Leslie Connor |
| ISBN | 0060890886 |
This poignant and joyful novel is filled with meaningful moments and emotional resonance.
Addie is waiting for normal. But Addie's mother has an all-or-nothing approach to life: a food fiesta or an empty pantry, her way or no way.
Addie’s mother is bipolar, and she often neglects...
| Author | Barry Denenberg |
| ISBN | 0439555132 |
I think I would have enjoyed this book more had it been a 'real' diary of a girl who lived on Oahu during the attack on Pearl Harbor. But since this was a fictional diary, I had a hard time loving it. I feel the book gives us a possible taste of what life might have been like during this time, but the epilogue of...
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
| Author | Firoozeh Dumas |
| ISBN | 0345499565 |
In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her well-meaning...
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1419704427 |
This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich...
Ebony, a self-proclaimed goth and a vampire, falls in love with another vampire who goes by the name of "Satan." However, their relationship is not all its cracked up to be...
The story follows Ebony Way as she forms a romantic attachment to Draco Malfoy (an elegant Goth in this story), in spite...
| Author | Kathleen Olmstead |
| ISBN | 1402726651 |
Dickens� timeless novel transports young readers to a colorful Victorian England filled with mistreated orphans, grim workhouses, and gangs of thieving children. The hero finds himself in dire circumstances after he dares to beg for more food in the orphanage. Determined to make his way...
