Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie

6 best books like Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz): My Life as a Rat, The Purloined Letter, Wylding Hall, Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp, Trying Out, Dein perfektes Jahr

My Life as a Rat

Author	Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN	0062899902

“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?” --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat

Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth...

The Purloined Letter

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0886820618

Dans cette nouvelle, le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par G..., le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une lettre de la plus haute importance a été volée dans le boudoir royal. Le moment précis du vol et le voleur, D..., sont connus du policier, mais celui-ci est dans l'incapacité d'accabler...

Wylding Hall

Author	Elizabeth Hand
ISBN	1504007182

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake, the group’s...

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

Author	Jerry Stanley
ISBN	0517880946

I was surprised at how this book affected me. I thought it would just be a nice, quick lesson in the Dust Bowl migration. It turned out to be a lesson in humanity.

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp is very short. The first half gives the historic background and...

Trying Out

Author	Caroline B. Cooney
ISBN	0590334026

I read this series CHEERLEADERS as a teenager and I remember loving the characters and their story lines. All different authors. I have books 1-3, 5-8, 25 & 29. No idea what happened to the others but I know I had more than these.

Blurb from back of book 1:
To all of them, being a cheerleader...

Dein perfektes Jahr

Author

Charlotte Lucas

Was ist der Sinn deines Lebens? Falls Jonathan Grief jemals die Antwort auf diese Frage wusste, hat er sie schon lange vergessen.
Was ist der Sinn deines Lebens? Für Hannah Marx ist die Sache klar. Das Gute sehen. Die Zeit voll auskosten. Das Hier und Jetzt genießen. Und vielleicht auch so spontane...