Leon's Story
10 best books like Leon's Story (Leon Walter Tillage): Louisiana's Way Home, Baseball Saved Us, Ban This Book, The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites, Serendipity and Me, At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England, The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Humility Rules: Saint Benedict's Twelve-Step Guide to Genuine Self-Esteem, Gangsta Granny, The World’s Worst Children
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763694630 |
From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be.
When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana...
| Author | Ken Mochizuki |
| ISBN | 1880000199 |
Shorty and his family, along with thousands of Japanese Americans, are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fighting the heat and dust of the desert, Shorty and his father decide to build a baseball diamond and form a league in order to boost the spirits of the internees. Shorty...
| Author | Alan Gratz |
| ISBN | 0765385562 |
-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one's for you.- --Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath
An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book...
The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
| ISBN | 0679882804 |
A toe-tapper babies will love--the classic Seussian book about opposites: "Wet foot, dry foot. Low foot, high foot..."
This Little Book is an adaptation of the original book The Foot Book published by Random House in 1963..
| Author | Judith L. Roth |
| ISBN | 0670014400 |
Sara has always loved cats. She surrounds herself with pictures of cats, stuffed cats, even cat-headed slippers. But she’s never been allowed to have a real cat of her own. Her father has always told her no, for reasons he won’t explain.
So when a fluffy snowball of a kitten darts through...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0590486691 |
One terrifying night in 1848, a young African princess's village is raided by warriors. The invaders kill her mother and father, the King and Queen, and take her captive. Two years later, a British naval captain rescues her and takes her to England where she is presented to Queen Victoria, and becomes...
The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
| Author | Dan B. Allender |
| ISBN | 0891092897 |
Sexual abuse not only destroys trust, relationships, and dreams, it also causes grief, stress, and feelings of guilt and shame. This book examines the issues surrounding sexual abuse while looking to God for restoration and peace.
• Includes information about false memory issues
•...
Humility Rules: Saint Benedict's Twelve-Step Guide to Genuine Self-Esteem
Saint Benedict's fifth-century guide to humility offers the antidote to the epidemic of stress and depression overwhelming modern young adults. But the language of The Rule by Saint Benedict is medieval, and its most passionate advocates are cloistered monks and nuns. How then does this ancient...
| Author | David Walliams |
| ISBN | 0007371446 |
Another hilarious and moving novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country. A story of prejudice and acceptance, funny lists and silly words, this new book has all the hallmarks of David’s previous bestsellers.
Our hero Ben is...
The World’s Worst Children
From the world’s favourite author, David Walliams – ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters; all in glorious FULL COLOUR!(This ebook is optimised for Kindle tablets and the Kindle App. It is not suitable for e-Ink kindle devices, such as the PaperWhite. We recommend...
Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After!
| Author | Rachel Renée Russell |
It’s
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
for girls in this hilarious novel!
After a bump on the head in gym class on April Fool’s Day, Nikki has a wild dream in which she, her BFFs Chloe and Zoey, her crush Brandon, and mean girl Mackenzie all end up playing the roles of some familiar classic fairy tale characters....
