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Moonshiner's Son

10 best books like Moonshiner's Son (Carolyn Reeder): Dear Mr. Henshaw, A Year Down Yonder, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment, Dragon's Gate, A Long Way from Chicago, Maniac Magee, The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War, Bound for Oregon, Bonanza Girl, My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage

Dear Mr. Henshaw
AuthorBeverly Cleary
ISBN0380709589
Leigh has been Boyd Henshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid in school. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals from his lunchbag. Then Leigh's...
A Year Down Yonder
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0142300705
Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not.



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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
AuthorJeanne Wakatsuki Houston
ISBN0553272586
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp—with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton...
Dragon's Gate
AuthorLaurence Yep
ISBN0064404897
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle.

In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields,...
A Long Way from Chicago
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0142401102
"I don't think Grandma's a very good influence on us," Mary Alice said.

Every August, Joey Dowdel and his kid sister Mary Alice spend a week at their Granny's house.

She was so big and the town was so small. She was old too, or so we thought -- old as the hills. And tough! She was tough as an...
Maniac Magee
AuthorJerry Spinelli
ISBN0590452037
He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. Maniac Magee took to the streets.

And Maniac Magee became a legend.

Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how...
The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War
AuthorAlbert Marrin
ISBN0689312091
I love Albert Marrin. He has a great style that presents all the facts in a conversational, easy tone, without talking down. I've learned a lot of history through him already.

'The Yanks Are Coming' isn't any different. It's an engaging look at both the personal life of the Doughboy and the decisions...
Bound for Oregon
AuthorJean Van Leeuwen
ISBN0140383190

With only a guide book to show them the way, the Todd family sets out from their Arkansas home on a two thousand mile trek to claim unchartered Oregon Territory. Crossing rough terrain and encountering hostile people, the Todds show their true pioneering spirit. But as winter draws near, will the...
Bonanza Girl
AuthorPatricia Beatty
ISBN0688122809
Mama is widowed, with two children and no job prospects. She decides to start a school out in the gold fields but is shortly and firmly disabused of all her city slicker notions. The story is narrated by Ann Katherine, who is a nicely written young teen. Her younger brother is the bane of her existence, naturally....
My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage
AuthorElizabeth Borton de Treviño
ISBN1883937515
What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican señora in nineteen-thirties provincial Monterrey? She finds herself sometimes hilariously coping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining, and dramatic Latin emotions. It is like stepping...
Keeping Score
AuthorLinda Sue Park
ISBN0618927999
Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesn't play baseball—but at almost ten years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all the players' statistics and understands the subtleties...
Stink Alley
AuthorJamie Gilson
ISBN0688178642
The year is 1614. Recently orphaned Lizzy Tinker has lived half of her twelve years in Holland, but she does not feel at home there. Lizzy belongs to a small congregation of religious refugees who have fled England in order to worship as they choose. The Dutch people enjoy a free and easy lifestyle that...
Traitor: the Case of Benedict Arnold
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0698115538
Benedict Arnold always carried things too far. As a boy he did crazy things like climbing atop a burning roof and picking a fight with the town constable. As a soldier, he was even more reckless. He was obsessed with being the leader and the hero in every battle, and he never wanted to surrender. He even killed...
An Age of Extremes 1880-1917
AuthorJoy Hakim
ISBN0195153340
For the captains of industry--men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford--the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers,...
Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language
AuthorJanet Benge
ISBN1576581640
During WWI, Cameron Townsend was told, "You'll do more good selling Bibles in Central America than you would shooting Germans in France." Cameron began by translating the Bible into the language of his Guatemalan friends. Then he started Wycliffe Bible Translators with the dream of making the Good...
World War II: The Rest Of The Story And How It Affects You Today, 1930 To September 11, 2001
AuthorRichard J. Maybury
ISBN0942617436
All my kids will be reading this, as I think its challenge to the "mainstream" interpretations of World War II is invaluable. However, I hope my kids all have their internal B.S. detector going, because Maybury isn't immune. Maybury makes important points but can't resist innuendo (like telling us...
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