Preacher's Boy
10 best books like Preacher's Boy (Katherine Paterson): Shakespeare's Spy, North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad, Brady, Rodzina, The Perfect Shot, The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story, Jump Ship to Freedom, Baseball in April and Other Stories, The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos, Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
| Author | Gary L. Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0142403113 |
Things are disappearing mysteriously from Will Shakespeare's acting company, and it looks like an inside job. Everyone's eyes are on Widge, the orphan boy turned actor, and former thief. Widge knows better than anyone that Shakespeare's plays must be protected at all costs. In order to prove his innocence...
It's 1851 and Lucy Spencer's family is keeping a secret. Their Ohio home is a station on the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places that helps fugitive slaves escape to freedom in Canada. Lucy believes in what she and her family do to help the fugitives, even if it means putting herself...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698119371 |
BRADY by JEAN FRITZ -254pages.i answer to the question 2 and 11.
Does this story or its characters remind you of another story you have read? Does it remind you of a movie? how are they alike? and how are they different?
this story remember me another story that i read several years ago:...
In 1881, 12-year-old Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski wishes she didn’t have to board the orphan train in Chicago. But she has no home, no family, and no choice. Rodzina doesn’t believe the orphans are on their way out West to be adopted by good families. She’s sure they will become slaves...
| Author | Elaine Marie Alphin |
| ISBN | 1575058626 |
Someone murdered Brian's girfriend, Amanda. The police think it was her father. Brian isn't so sure. But everyone he knows is telling him to move on, get over it, focus on the present. Focus on basketball. Focus on hitting the perfect shot. Brian hopes that the system will work for Amanda and her father....
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061345032 |
When Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building, he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm—three hundred years in the past! Cast adrift with Captain John Crack-stone, Buddy washes up in New England, where his plucky ancestor,...
| Author | James Lincoln Collier |
| ISBN | 0440443237 |
Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel's father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers' notes to buy his family's freedom.
But now Daniel's father is dead, and Mrs....
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0152025677 |
The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in California’s Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of eleven short stories that reveal big themes in the small events of daily life. Crooked teeth, ponytailed girls, embarrassing grandfathers, imposter...
| Author | Lucia M. Gonzalez |
| ISBN | 0892392223 |
It is the winter of 1929, and cousins Hildamar and Santiago have just moved to enormous, chilly New York from their native Puerto Rico. As Three Kings' Day approaches, Hildamar and Santiago mourn the loss of their sunny home and wonder about their future in their adopted city. But when a storyteller and...
| Author | Scott Reynolds Nelson |
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson...
The schoolmaster says nine-year-old Benjamin is the finest student he's ever seen-fit for more than farming; destined for great things someday But his father's grave illness brings Ben home,from school and compels him to strive forsomething great right now -- to do the one thing that will please Father...
| Author | Jane Kurtz |
| ISBN | 0152010742 |
“The Storytellers Beads” by Jane Kurtz (who grew up in a remote village in southwest corner of Ethiopia) is about the main characters, Sahay and Rahel that are both from Ethiopia. Rahel is an Ethiopian Jew who is also blind. Sahay is an Orthodox Christian. The story follows their journey during the...
| Author | Anne Isaacs |
| ISBN | 0590603647 |
A searing Holocaust novel based on a true story.
Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been forced to leave their home in Poland and are imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. There they must spin thread on treacherous machinery to make clothing and blankets for the German Army. As Eva struggles...
| Author | Kathryn Winter |
| ISBN | 0439099048 |
In this semi-autobiographical novel, eight-year-old Katarina is bewildered by the hullabaloo surrounding her Jewish heritage in World War II at Slovakia. Raised by her unobservant aunt Lena, Katarina knows next to nothing about her supposed religion and heritage. In public school, she's a Jew....
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0064438287 |
"Two of the things Benjamin Hunter received for his twelfth birthday took him completely by surprise: A room and a letter. The room was from his parents. The letter was from his uncle."
Ben was just two years old when he and his uncle, Ian, were last together, so Ben didn't remember him. And no one...
| Author | Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
| ISBN | 1562477595 |
I will never be able to get over how American Girl made such an impact on the historical fiction for young girls genre. I truly believe that they are one of the biggest reasons why I became such a history lover and why, to this day, historical fiction remains one of my preferred genres.
But anyway,...
| Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
Gatty is a field girl on a manor. She has never seen busy London or the bright Channel, the snowy Alps of France or the boats in the Venetian sea. She has not sung in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem or prayed at the manger in Bethlehem -- or been kidnapped, or abandoned, or kissed, or heartbroken. But all these...
| Author | Benedict Freedman |
| ISBN | 0425188337 |
In this long-awaited sequel to the “unforgettable” (Boston Herald) bestseller Mrs. Mike, Benedict and Nancy Freedman paint a portrait of the World War II era—as seen through the eyes of a young Cree woman on her own for the very first time…
When her dear friend O Be Joyful died in a...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0590460544 |
I think this one's going in the next cull.
I don't like the "me Indian, me speak funny" trope that Rinaldi employs. Walking Breeze learned English alongside Shawnee, much as I learned German alongside English. Both her English and my German should therefore have the accents of our teachers,...
| Author | Charles Lewinsky |
| ISBN | 3312006309 |
Winter 1944. Die bayerischen Alpen sind trotz Krieg – noch – eine friedliche Gegend. Ein Filmteam der UFA setzt alles daran, sich dorthin abzusetzen. Unter einem Vorwand beschafft man sich den Auftrag für den vermeintlich kriegswichtigen Film "Lied der Freiheit". In dem bald vom Schnee eingeschlossenen...
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 0007487517 |
Inspired by the true story of Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British army, this is a stunning new novel of identity and loss by Michael Morpurgo, biggest UK children's author and the bestselling, award-winning writer of War Horse, now a smash West End and Broadway hit as well as an Oscar-nominated...
| Author | Rita Monaldi |
| ISBN | 9023459954 |
Tyrrheense Zee, december 1646. De jonge castraat Atto Melani lijdt met zijn reisgezelschap schipbreuk. Ze stranden op een vergeten eiland, waar Melani in een verlaten fort de sporen aantreft van een Slavonische monnik en de schat waar de castraat, net als zijn reisgenoten, naar op zoek was: een aantal...
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
About the Book:
Funny and sad, satirical and humane, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men –the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator –whose trajectories...
