Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen
10 best books like Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen (Michelle R. McCann): The Printed Letter Bookshop, The Penderwicks at Last, Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot, Only a Kiss, Only Enchanting, The Kite Fighters, Benno and the Night of Broken Glass, A Good Year for the Roses, The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade, Lizzy and Jane
The Printed Letter Bookshop
| Author | Katherine Reay |
| ISBN | 0785222006 |
Love, friendship, and family find a home at the Printed Letter Bookshop
One of Madeline Cullen’s happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles...
Nine years, five older siblings, a few beloved dogs, and an endless array of adventures--these are the things that have shaped Lydia's journey since readers first met her in The Penderwicks in Spring.
Now it's summertime, and eleven-year-old Lydia is dancing at the bus stop, waiting for big...
| Author | Margot Theis Raven |
| ISBN | 1585360694 |
This heartwarming little book just left me teary-eyed! This very beautifully illustrated book is about a little girl in Berlin and a generous American pilot who was known as the Chocolate Pilot as he used to drop chocolates from his plane for the kids during the crisis that emerged after WWII.
Interesting...
| Author | Mary Balogh |
| ISBN | 0451469682 |
The Survivors’ Club: Six men and one woman, injured in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendships forged in steel and loyalty. But for one, her trials are not over....
Since witnessing the death of her husband during the wars, Imogen, Lady Barclay, has secluded herself in the confines of Hardford...
| Author | Mary Balogh |
| ISBN | 0451469666 |
The Survivors' Club: Six men and one woman, all wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendship forged during their recovery at Penderris Hall in Cornwall. Now, in the fourth novel of the Survivors' Club series, Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby, has left this refuge to find his own salvation—in the love...
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| ISBN | 0440418135 |
In Seoul, Korea, in 1473, Young-sup and his older brother Kee-sup are excited about the New Year kite competition. Young-sup is an expert at kite flying. He knows just what his kite wants him to do. Kee-sup has trouble handling his kite, but can build and design a kite fit for a king.
Each brother...
| Author | Meg Wiviott |
| ISBN | 0822599295 |
Benno is a cat who doesn't belong to one person. He belongs to a town; to Hans, the Adler family in 3B, the Schmidts in 3A, Moshe the butcher, Frau Gerber, Mitzi Stein, and Professor Goldfarb. He spends his days visiting each person, following the daughters in the Adler & Schmidt family to school, playing...
| Author | Gil McNeil |
| ISBN | 1401341918 |
Life hasn't been a bed of roses for Londoner Molly Taylor lately. Newly divorced and struggling to find a new home and a way to support her three boys, she's stunned when her beloved Aunt Helena dies and leaves her Harrington Hall, a three-hundred-year-old manor house on the Devon coast, where Molly grew...
The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade
| Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| ISBN | 0545863201 |
In sixth grade, bad things can happen to good kids. Bullies will find your weakness and jump on it. Teachers will say you did something wrong when really you didn't mean to do anything wrong. The kids who joke the loudest can drown out the quieter, nicer kids.
Maverick wants to change all that....
| Author | Katherine Reay |
| ISBN | 1401689736 |
Lizzy and Jane never saw eye to eye. But when illness brings them together, they discover they may be more like Austen’s famous sisters after all.
Lizzy was only a teenager when her mother died of cancer. Shortly after, Lizzy fled from her home, her family, and her cherished nickname. After...
Sisters Dahlia, Iris, Violet, and Rose—all with grown children of their own—have a complicated relationship, so when their grand - mother’s will requires them to spend the whole summer—without friends or family—“camping in” at her run-down lodge on re mote Lake Clare in order to inherit...
| Author | Vonette Bright |
| ISBN | 0842371893 |
Book 1 in the Sister Circle(TM) When Evelyn Peerbaugh hung the ancient sign in front of her house, she had no idea of how life was about to change. In a matter of days she became the newly widowed owner of a busy boardinghouse, coping with the lives and emotions of a most incompatible group of women. Settling...
Wow! I borrowed this today from the library. I was going to concurrently read it with the other two library books I have at home and other reading material too. I had three phone calls I meant to make today. I picked up the book to start it, and I didn’t put it down until I finished it. I did not expect that....
Willy and Max: A Holocaust Story
| Author | Amy Littlesugar |
| ISBN | 0399234837 |
When Max’s dad buys a painting from the window of Willy’s dad’s antique shop, Willy and Max become instant friends.They are just alike, down to their same missing tooth! Even though Max lives in the Jewish quarter, the boys are inseparable—until the Nazis come. They take everything from Max’s...
| Author | Haywood Smith |
| ISBN | 1250003520 |
If you've ever struggled with a health insurance claim, you'll love Haywood Smith's witty send-up of the health insurance industry, the drug companies, the medical profession, and falling apart ten years before Medicare. From the beloved author of The Red Hat Club and Wife-in-Law, Out of Warranty...
| Author | Mary Connealy |
| ISBN | 0764211811 |
When Cimarron ranch patriarch Chance Boden is caught in an avalanche, the quick actions of hired hand Heath Kincaid save him. Badly injured, Chance demands that his will be read and its conditions be enforced immediately.
Without anyone else to serve as a witness, Heath is pressed into reading...
| Author | Jason Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1481415905 |
When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires—literally.
Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia—in...
The Silent Witness: A True Story of the Civil War
| Author | Robin Friedman |
| ISBN | 0618442308 |
Four-year-old Lula McLean lived on a plantation overlooking Bull Run Creek. There her family grew wheat, corn, and oats. In July 1861, troops fighting in the newly begun Civil War arrived on the McLeans’ front lawn in Manassas, Virginia. The peaceful countryside where Lula often spent time playing...
