The Art of Keeping Cool
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| Author | Scott O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0449702448 |
This was a really great book! Scott O'Dell is one of my favorite authors, and this book is just as wonderful as all the others I've read.
The best way to describe this, and all his books I've read, is charming. The characters were lovable, there was a good antagonist,...
| Author | Kim Ablon Whitney |
| ISBN | 0375852190 |
In May of 1939, the SS St. Francis sets sail from Germany, carrying German Jews and other refugees away from Hitler’s regime. The passengers believe they are bound for freedom in Cuba and eventually the United States, but...
| Author | Graham Salisbury |
| ISBN | 0553494872 |
World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats.
But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese,...
| Author | Frances O'Roark Dowell |
| ISBN | 0689846673 |
Dovey Coe says what's on her...
| Author | Carolyn Reeder |
| ISBN | 0689838662 |
| Author | Paul Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0064405885 |
In this brilliant fictional tour de force, which the New York Times called "a deft, poignant novel," Newbery Medal-winning author Paul Fleischman re-creates the first...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0816713170 |
| Author | A. LaFaye |
| ISBN | 0689857306 |
Nathaniel feels increasingly jealous of the boy who...
| Author | Elizabeth Fama |
| ISBN | 0553494368 |
| Author | Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| ISBN | 0590898000 |
It’s 1949 and two small communities in Oregon have been getting together for fifty years for sixth grade girls from each community to play...
| Author | Michael Dorris |
This story is very gentle, and the writing is simple yet powerful. Told in alternating...
| Author | Carol Gorman |
| ISBN | 1561454125 |
When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives in Charlie's small...
| Author | Julia Platt Leonard |
| Author | Katherine Paterson |
Jip, His Story, is a 1996 children's book, written by American novelist Katherine Paterson. Set in Vermont, during the 1850s, it focuses on a 12-year-old orphan, named Jip, who was abandoned as an infant, and mistaken for a gypsy because of his skin color. Jip...
| Author | Terry Trueman |
Based on Hurricane Mitch's devastation of Honduras in 1998, Terry Trueman's acclaimed Hurricane is a gripping, realistic story told from the perspective of a hurricane survivor.
After...
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0375832599 |
| Author | Audrey Couloumbis |
| ISBN | 0375856285 |
For 12-year-old Petros, World War II feels unreal and far away. What’s real is working in his papa’s garden. Playing marbles with his friends. Fighting with his older brother, Zola. Zola, who must always be first. Who must always be best. But when the...
The Bomb
| Author | Theodore Taylor |
| ISBN | 0380727234 |
| Author | Miriam Bat-Ami |
| ISBN | 0142300365 |
"4.5 stars" It is always such a joy to me when a random book buy turns out to be a fabulous read. I picked up Two Suns in the Sky at the library book sale for only fifty cents, but had I known how good it was going to be, I would have been happy to pay full-price. This young adult novel...
| Author | Harriette Gillem Robinet |
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0064410293 |
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an...
His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg
| Author | Louise Borden |
| ISBN | 0618507558 |
Raoul Wallenberg’s name may not be a universally familiar one, but the impact he had is immeasurable. Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest during World War II to rescue Jews from...
Stepping on the Cracks
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380719002 |
Soldier X
| Author | Don L. Wulffson |
| ISBN | 0142500739 |