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10 best books like The Loud Silence of Francine Green (Karen Cushman): The Green Glass Sea, Blessing's Bead, Winnie's War, My Mother the Cheerleader, Alphabet of Dreams, Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family, A House of Tailors, Nowhere to Call Home, Gemini Summer, Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial

The Green Glass Sea
AuthorEllen Klages
ISBN0670061344
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father, but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government...
Blessing's Bead
AuthorDebby Dahl Edwardson
ISBN0374308055
Nutaaq and her older sister, Aaluk, are on a great journey, sailing from a small island off the coast of Alaska to the annual trade fair. There, a handsome young Siberian wearing a string of cobalt blue beads watches Aaluk "the way a wolf watches a caribou, never resting." Soon his actions—and other...
Winnie's War
AuthorJenny Moss
ISBN0802798195
A debut novel set against the backdrop of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.

Life in Winnie's sleepy town of Coward Creek, Texas, is just fine for her. Although her troubled mother's distant behavior has always worried Winnie, she's plenty busy caring for her younger sisters, going to school,...
My Mother the Cheerleader
AuthorRobert Sharenow
ISBN0061148962
Louise Collins was pretty certain that nothing all that exciting would happen in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she lived with her mother in their boarding house, Rooms on Desire. Every day was almost the same: serve cranky Mr. Landroux his meals in bed, visit Antoine's Pick-a-Chick with Charlotte,...
Alphabet of Dreams
AuthorSusan Fletcher
ISBN0689850425
Mitra and her little brother, Babak, are beggars in the city of Rhagae, scratching out a living as best as they can with what they can beg for--or steal. But Mitra burns with hope and ambition, for she and Babak are not what they seem. They are of royal blood, but their father's ill-fated plot against the...
Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family
AuthorKimberly Willis Holt
ISBN0805063609
The lives of four generations of one Louisiana family, woven together by a master storyteller

Tracing a family's roots is like taking a journey through the years. In the case of one Louisiana family, that journey can be charted by the books they read and loved.

The journey begins in...
A House of Tailors
AuthorPatricia Reilly Giff
ISBN0440238005
SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk.

Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family.

When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany...
Nowhere to Call Home
AuthorCynthia C. DeFelice
ISBN0380733064
Unable to cope with the financial ruin caused by the Great Depression, Frances's father has taken his own life. Sad and bewildered, Frances cashes in the railroad ticket that would have carried her to her aunt's home, trades in her dress for trousers and a cap, and hits the rails as a hobo called Frankie...
Gemini Summer
AuthorIain Lawrence
ISBN0385730896
In the quiet of Hog's Hollow, each member of the River family pursues a dream. Old Man River sets out to build a fallout shelter in case the war in Vietnam "brings the end of everything;" his wife Flo, who collects Gone with the Wind dolls, attempts to pen her own Southern saga; Beau, their older son, suffers...
Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
AuthorRonald Kidd
ISBN1416905723
Dayton is a sleepy little town nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. It is long across and about two miles wide. Despite being the home of Bryan College, a school with over 800 students from around the world, it clings persistently to its small-town feel. The local librarians know the gossip on almost...
Bird in a Box
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0316074039
Otis, Willie, and Hibernia are three children with a lot in common: they've all lost a loved one, they each have secret dreams, and they won't stop fighting for what they want. And they're also a lot like their hero, famed boxer Joe Louis. Throughout this moving novel, their lives gradually converge to...
Little Audrey
AuthorRuth White
ISBN0374345805
"What else would you wish for?" Daddy says. "If you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?"
I shrug. "Oh, I don't know. Maybe . . ."
"Maybe what?"
"For us to live better than we do."
He does not say anything.

In 1948, award-winning author Ruth White lived in Jewell...
The Devil's Paintbox
AuthorVictoria McKernan
ISBN0375837507
When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson in the spring of 1865, they're struggling to survive on their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. So when Jackson offers an escape – a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world – Aiden knows it's their...
Jimmy's Stars
AuthorMary Ann Rodman
ISBN0374337039
It’s September 1943, and eleven-year-old Ellie McKelvey’s older brother, Jimmy, has just been drafted. Jimmy has a joyful heart and a kind word for everyone, and he’s the only person who thinks Ellie is smart and funny and as beautiful as Lana Turner, the movie star. Ellie can hardly stand to see...
This Means War!
AuthorEllen Wittlinger
ISBN1416971017
October 1962. Juliet Klostermeyer's world is turning upside down. All she hears from her parents and teachers and on the news is the Russian threat and the Cuban Missile Crisis. And things aren't much better at home. Her best friend, Lowell, doesn't seem interested in being her friend anymore--he'd...
Chasing Orion
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0763639826
When a beautiful teen with polio enters their lives, a girl and her older brother find themselves drawn into a web of lies in this compelling novel by a best-selling author.

Eleven-year-old Georgie loves science-fiction movies, but she won’t be going to the theater anytime soon. It’s...
London Calling
AuthorEdward Bloor
ISBN0375836357
In the summer after 7th grade Martin meets a boy in a dream who will change his life forever. Where did this boy come from? Is he a dream? But how can his dreams be set in London during the Blitz? How can he wake up with a head full of people and facts and events that he certainly didn't know when he went to sleep--but...
Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
-POTENTIAL SPOILERS-

Oh, Ann Rinaldi. I've read almost all of your books and the most I can say is that they're a definite acquired taste.

She has a knack for randomly switching the speed of her pacing-sometimes the story is paced extremely slowly, and other times it's really fast....
On the Wings of Heroes
AuthorRichard Peck
ISBN0803730810
Davy Bowmans brother and their dad hung the moon. Dad looks forward to Halloween more than a kid, and Davys brother, Bill, flies B-17s. Davy adores these two heroes and tries his best to follow their lead, especially now. World War II has invaded Davys homefront boyhood. Theres an air raid drill in the...
Black and white : the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
AuthorLarry Dane Brimner
ISBN1590787668
In the 1950s and early 60s, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene Bull Connor. From his pulpit, Shuttlesworth agitated for racial equality, while...
Black Duck
AuthorJanet Taylor Lisle
ISBN0399239634
When Ruben and Jed find the dead body on the Rhode Island shore, they are certain it has something to do with smuggling liquor. It is the 1920’s, Prohibition is in full swing, and almost everyone in the shore community is involved. Suddenly, the boys find themselves involved as well: Didn’t the dead...
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes
AuthorPeggy Gifford
ISBN0375945520
Here's the second book in the hilarious Moxy Maxwell series, which includes Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart little and Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano. It isn't as though Moxy isn’t grateful for her Christmas presents. She is. She’s just not thrilled that she has to write a thank-you...
A Thousand Never Evers
AuthorShana Burg
ISBN0385734700
IN KUCKACHOO, MISSISSIPPI, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and follows in his footsteps by attending the black junior high school. But when her careless act leads to her brother’s disappearance and possible murder, Addie Ann, Mama, and Uncle Bump struggle with not knowing if...
Tennyson
AuthorLesley M.M. Blume
ISBN0375847030
It’s 1932, the Depression. Things are evening out among people everywhere. Tennyson Fontaine and her sister Hattie live in a rickety shack of a house with their mother and father and their wild dog, Jos. There is no school, only a rope swing in the living room and endless games of hide-and-seek in the...
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