Prairie Songs
10 best books like Prairie Songs (Pam Conrad): Disappearances, Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany, Caught in the Act, Tibet: Through the Red Box, Flight to Freedom:, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1), The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo, I'm in Charge of Celebrations, The Secret Shortcut, The Crossing
| Author | Howard Frank Mosher |
| ISBN | 0618694064 |
Winner of the New England Book Award, Howard Frank Mosher’s endearing first novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the memorable tale of a young man named Wild Bill Bonhomme, his larger-than-life father, Quebec Bill, and their whiskey-smuggling exploits along...
| Author | Ilse Koehn |
| ISBN | 0140342907 |
I'm not sure when I read this only that it was before I read the diary of anne frank & it moved me in an unusually stark & horrific way. I was so distraught by this book that I read pre-7th grade, that I made my Daddy read it as I considered him an expert on all things German & wanted him to tell me it...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440226783 |
I was lucky enough to get a copy of this book through inter-library loan, having read the first book in the series a little less than a month ago. As with the first book ( A Family Apart) the story begins when modern day children in Missouri visit with their grandmother who helps them take a look at the past...
| Author | Peter Sís |
| ISBN | 0374375526 |
A father's diary, an artist's memoir.
By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys.
While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren't allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy dream, and my drawings...
Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign...
| Author | R.A. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0985399538 |
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
Vanished?
Liza Poole lives with her mother in one of the last balanced ecosystems in North America -- the Gumbo Limbo Hammock deep within the lush kingdom of the Florida Everglades. Some may think it strange to live outdoors, but Liza feels lucky to live it strange to live outdoors, but Liza feels...
| Author | Byrd Baylor |
| ISBN | 0689806205 |
From the highly acclaimed team of Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall comes the story of a girl who shares her love for desert life as she tells of treasured experiences like dancing in the wind on Dust Devil Day or sleeping outside on a hot summer night during The Time of the Falling Stars. Baylor's radiant prose-poem...
| Author | Mark Teague |
| ISBN | 0439110912 |
The Secret Shortcut by Mark Teague draws on the same idea of magical worlds being accessible from the most mundane places as is explored in The Lost and Found. Where The Lost and Found was located in a school, The Secret Shortcut is located somewhere en route to school.
Wendell and Floyd, the main...
| Author | Gilbert Morris |
| ISBN | 1602609071 |
From the beloved author of the bestselling House of Winslow series comes a new trilogy about the Civil War. Join Gilbert Morris as he explores the life of General Stonewall Jackson through the story of the fictional Yancy Tremayne. Raised among the Cheyenne, Yancy rejects the Amish community his father...
| Author | Ruth Plumly Thompson |
| ISBN | 0345328671 |
American Kid Shoots for Mars, Winds Up in Oz
Or, you could entitle this book "Magic's Lethal Labor Lost". Ruth Plumly Thompson turned out a lot of volumes in the decades-long Oz series. Some were "a bit weak" compared to Baum's original twelve. This is quite a good one in which we find three strands...
How to Write a Children's Book and Get It Published
| Author | Barbara Seuling |
| ISBN | 0684193434 |
Here is everything the aspiring children's author needs to know about the five essential steps to publication: researching the current marketplace, developing story ideas, strengthening writing skills and improving work habits, submitting proposals and manuscripts to agents and publishers,...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0439523575 |
Told through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy, this is a story of adventure and discovery in a cookcamp located in the Canadian woods during World War II.
When?: World War II
Where?: A cookcamp in the Canadian woods
Why?: He's not really sure.
One summer, a 5-year-old boy goes to live...
Maggie, almost 13, is visiting her father, his young wife, and their new baby during her summer vacation. At the lake near their rented cottage, Maggie observes a great blue heron. She identifies with the solitary bird, then makes the startling discovery that someone is trying to kill it. While grappling...
