Storm Warriors
10 best books like Storm Warriors (Elisa Carbone): Chanda's Wars, Bandit's Moon, Walk Across the Sea, Bronx Masquerade, The Weirdo, George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War, Who Comes with Cannons?, Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac, Touched by Fire, Hope's Crossing
| Author | Allan Stratton |
| ISBN | 0060872624 |
She promised her mama she'd keep them safe. It's been six months since Mama died, and Chanda is struggling to raise her little brother and sister. Determined to end a family feud, she takes them to her relatives' remote rural village. But across the nearby border, a brutal civil war is spreading. Rebels...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0440415861 |
After a narrow escape from the nasty O. O. Mary's clutches, Annyrose ventures forth to find her long-lost brother Lank in gold-digging territory. But the journey is rough, bandits and fiends waiting for the traveler at every bend. Soon Annyrose runs into Joaquin Murieta, legendary bandit of the Gold...
| Author | Susan Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0689857071 |
By 1886 many of Eliza Jane McCully's neighbors are concerned that the growing immigrant Chinese population is threatening their comfortable way of life. But it is a young Chinese boy named Wah Chung who saves Eliza and her pet goat from being swept into the sea by a deadly wave. This makes Eliza wonder:...
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 0142501891 |
When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin,...
| Author | Theodore Taylor |
| ISBN | 0152056661 |
Chip Clewt, known simply as the weirdo, lives like a hermit in the Powhatan Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge that is at the center of a heated controversy between local hunters and environmentalists. A hunting ban on the Powhatan is about to expire. The environmentalists want to protect the wildlife;...
George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War
| Author | Thomas B. Allen |
| ISBN | 1426300417 |
Now in paperback—the award-winning National Geographic book that presents the untold story of the invisible war behind the American Revolution. A riveting tale of intrigue, spies, counterspies and secret agents, George Washington, Spymasteris a unique and entertaining account of one of the...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0688110282 |
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac
When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest...
"Let them burn. They're a lot of cattle anyway."
A factory-owner's response regarding the use of fire drills in March 1911.
Touched by Fire, Irene N. Watt's exquisite new novel, explores one family's journey as they flee from the pogroms of Russia in 1905, where the Cossacks...
| Author | Joan Elizabeth Goodman |
| ISBN | 0698118073 |
Hope's father works for General Washington during the revolutionary war. Tories break into their house and burn everything down and even kidnap Hope who is just a young girl. Taken back to the Torie's house Hope is treated very badly, especially by the wife. Fortunately there's an older woman who helps...
| Author | Frances O'Roark Dowell |
| ISBN | 1416934820 |
Meet Tobin McCauley. He's got a near-certifiable grandmother, a pack of juvenile-delinquent siblings, and a dad who's not going to win father of the year any time soon. To top it off, Tobin's only friend truly believes that the study of chickens will reveal...the meaning of life? Getting through seventh...
| Author | Jane Buchanan |
| ISBN | 0141303158 |
خیلی قشنگ بود، دوستش داشتم.
فکر میکردم پایان خوشش اذیتم بکنه، اما نکرد. .
The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0374400148 |
A Matter of Life or Death
It's 1849, and twelve-year-old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has swept through the community. Lucas is grief-stricken and filled with guilt. He might have saved his mother, who was the last to die, if only...
| Author | Heather Vogel Frederick |
| ISBN | 0689848692 |
October 1835. Patience Goodspeed, almost thirteen years old, departs from Nantucket aboard her father's whaling ship. Between kitchen duty and whale blubber stench, this voyage is far from a pleasure cruise. At least Papa lets Patience assist the ship's navigator since she's so good at calculations....
| Author | Ida Vos |
| ISBN | 0395653681 |
Sigh...and the Summer Curse continues.
Even aside from the bland writing and unimpressive plot, it still would've been an okay story if Anna hadn't become so unlikeable by the end of it. The way she bullied that poor innocent boy, Stefan, was disgusting. And not much is said about it. This isn't...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0141306009 |
When Roberto sneaks off to see a movie in his Italian village, he has no idea that life as he knows it is over. German soldiers raid the theater, round up the boys in the audience, and pack them onto a train. After a terrifying journey, Roberto and his best friend Samuele find themselves in a brutal work camp,...
| Author | Monika Schröder |
| ISBN | 0374364117 |
Initial reaction: Very unexpected surprise. I didn't expect to enjoy this novel as much as I did, particularly with it being a random read that I picked up from my local library. I thought the environment and details with respect to India were a nice touch, and I really liked following Akash's journey...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0440229510 |
Near the end of World War II, scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, are working on a project that will alter the fate of the world. Thirteen-year-old Stephen Orr is living at a top secret military base with his father who is a leading physicist building the atomic bomb. Stephen realizes the dangers involved...
| Author | Maurine F. Dahlberg |
| ISBN | 0142301450 |
Austria in 1938 is under the shadow of the Nazis, but twelve-year-old Greta doesn't notice-she cares only for her piano lessons with their new neighbor, a teacher with a mysterious past. Herr Hummel believes in Greta, and she begins to prepare for a recital. Then the Nazis invade, and Greta discovers...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0590467522 |
Sarah Jane discovers a young Apache boy that has escaped from the US government's grasp. After he becomes sick, Sarah Jane and her mother nurse him back to health, with instructions to notify the authorities. The only problem is, how can they send him to his "home" when he is already there with them?
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| Author | Diane Les Becquets |
| ISBN | 0761452389 |
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I first read this book in 2004. I was 9 years old and this instantly became a favorite. I remember it being one of the first books that brought me to tears at the end and made me want to just hug it for hours.
After 11 years, I finally reread...
| Author | John Claude Bemis |
| ISBN | 0375855653 |
What if John Henry had a son?
Twelve-year-old Ray is haunted by the strangest memories of his father, whom Ray swears could speak to animals. Now an orphan, Ray jumps from a train going through the American South and falls in with a medicine show train and its stable of sideshow performers. The...
| Author | Tom Bodett |
| ISBN | 0375806873 |
"Bodett, the genial voice in those Motel 6 commercials, offers a page-turner set in the wilds of Alaska, and he clearly knows the taste of sea and storm, the face of the landscape, and the sound of the loons and the scent of salmon. In this sentimental but rousing tale, September Crane, 13, and her 12-year-old...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0440415810 |
We will dance on the cliffs of Brooklyn.
Maggie’s Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination—the home of Nory’s sister Maggie, at 416 Smith Street, Brooklyn, America....
