My Louisiana Sky
10 best books like My Louisiana Sky (Kimberly Willis Holt): Al Capone Shines My Shoes, Lily's Crossing, Julie of the Wolves, Caterpillar Summer, Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912, Across Five Aprils, Love and Other Mistakes, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, The Year of the Baby
Al Capone Shines My Shoes
| Author | Gennifer Choldenko |
| ISBN | 0803734603 |
Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. It's 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0440414539 |
Author Patricia Reilly Giff's Newbery Honor-winning Lily's Crossing is now available for the first time in paperback!
Every summer Lily and her father go to her family's house in Rockaway, near the Atlantic Ocean. But the summer of 1944 is different. World War II has called Lily's father overseas,...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0064400581 |
Alone and lost—on the North Slope of Alaska
Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by...
Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond--Cat is one of the few people who can keep Chicken happy. When he has a "meltdown" she's the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She's the one who knows what Chicken needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep...
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 0590962736 |
Of the Titanic story, I always find it most difficult to get through reading or hearing about the crew who sacrificed their lives. What amazes me most is that the band selflessly played through the entire ordeal without rushing to the lifeboats and trying to save themselves. If there was one thing I could...
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| ISBN | 0425182789 |
Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."
I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way...
There’s a fine line between love and hate . . . And for the last seven years, Natalie Groves has hated Jeremy Walters.
Natalie Groves was meant for great things. But soon after her fiancé left, Natalie’s father was diagnosed with cancer. Suddenly her grand plans evaporated . . . and God...
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
| Author | Daniel H. Pink |
| ISBN | 1594481717 |
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.
Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author...
| Author | Sara Nickerson |
| ISBN | 0064410277 |
You know how it is when you stumble across a book you've never heard of by an author you've never heard of and you start to read and can't put the book down....?
Well this is one of those books. Sophie and Margaret are two lonely sisters living a strange half life with a severely depressed mother who most...
| Author | Andrea Cheng |
| ISBN | 0547910673 |
Last year, Anna learned how to be a good friend. Now that her family has adopted a baby girl from China, she wants to learn how to be a good sister. But the new year proves challenging when the doctor warns that the baby isn’t thriving. Can Anna and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0440486815 |
Ten year old Garnet lives on a farm in the the 1930s. We loved the start of this book, instantly both wanting to live there in Garnet's house and go swimming in water that was too warm! That never happens in England! We enjoyed the characters and the tale of the coral bracelet and the library incident, the...
