Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen

9 best books like Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen (Perry Nodelman): Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743, Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490, Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136, Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595, Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865, Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder

AuthorKristiana Gregory
ISBN0439253853
Scholastic is proud to present the final installment of The Royal Diaries series. Drama and intrigue explode in the story of young Princess Catherine's incredible journey to greatness.

Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange...
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
AuthorEdwidge Danticat
ISBN0439499062
With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered...
AuthorKristiana Gregory
ISBN0439164842
Author of the best-selling Royal Diaries title, CLEOPATRA VII, Kristiana Gregory now takes readers to twelfth-century France and introduces Eleanor of Aquitaine, who becomes queen at age 15.

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine lives in a castle in Poitier, France, with her father...
Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595
AuthorSheri Holman
ISBN0439165865
In the late seventh century, the land that we now call Korea was embroiled with political and religious conflicts. Three kingdoms (Silla, Koguryo, and Paekche) fought for supremacy, and three faiths (Shamanism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) battled for dominance. Princess Sondok, the eldest daughter...
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0439194040
I read these books when I was little, so I have a very childish adoration for them. However, reading them now I am irritated with the historical inaccuracies since they help perpetuate the lack of knowledge having to do with history in general. MQoS is a very complex figure given a very anglo personality,...
AuthorMarion Dane Bauer
ISBN0439220270
"Land of the Buffalo Bones" is the diary of Mary Rodgers, known as Polly. Promising religious freedom and fertile land, Polly's father, Reverend Rodgers, moves their Baptist community from England to the Minnesota prairie. After a treacherous journey across the sea and across this country, Polly...
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
AuthorJoyce Hansen
ISBN0439555051
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy a Freed Girl is about a young African American girl, Patsy, who lived during the time when slavery was abolished after the Civil War.

The book was okay. I can see why I was attracted to reading this series when I was younger. The whole novel is...
AuthorKristiana Gregory
ISBN0590226517
Now that we're in the North Platte River Valley the air feels dry and thin. My lips are so chapped they bleed when I talk. The only thing to do is dip our fingers in to the bucket of axle grease and rub our lips every hour or so. It smells bad, it tastes bad, and the blowing dust sticks.

It feels like we...
AuthorMegan McDonald
ISBN0439169631
Florrie finds the adventure of a lifetime along the Santa Fe Trail, meeting new challenges and dangers, after her mother decides to move her family from Missouri to New Mexico.

Starting their journey from their home in Missouri, Florrie Ryder and her family are headed towards the promise of...
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