Mary Coin
6 best books like Mary Coin (Marisa Silver): Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, The Man Who Stayed Behind, I, Emma Freke, The Last of Her Kind, Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1524732710 |
The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological...
| Author | Sidney Rittenberg |
| ISBN | 0822326671 |
The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the...
| Author | Elizabeth Atkinson |
| ISBN | 0761356045 |
Middle school is a time when many kids feel freakish. Though I looked more or less normal, I felt freakish on the inside. Emma, however, wears her freakishness on the outside. At 12 years old, she is almost 6 feet tall with bright red hair. It's sort of hard to pretend to be invisible with those sorts of looks....
| Author | Sigrid Nunez |
| ISBN | 0312425945 |
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year
Sigrid Núñez's The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate,...
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0395797268 |
Russell Freedman is one of my favorite non-fiction authors for young people. His best books use vintage photography to explore the themes of a time period, and his writing is clear and concise enough to get his message to his readers. Some of his best include Lincoln: A Photobiography, Children of the...
Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown
| Author | Michael Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0609609076 |
In this celebration of one of America's oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on the sandy tip at the...
