The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
7 best books like The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius (Jan Greenberg): One Crazy Summer, The Seeing Stone, Lucinda's Secret, The Nixie's Song, Parrots Over Puerto Rico, Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0060760885 |
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689859376 |
I read this with my daughter for a school book report. We read the first book together and decided to give this one a try too. The rating is from my daughter who I asked, "If five means you loved it and one you hated it, how many stars?"
I think the plot in this one was more complex and meaty. They are still...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689859384 |
Lucinda’s Secret (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #3), Tony DiTerlizzi
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689871317 |
The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter...
| Author | Susan L. Roth |
| ISBN | 1620140047 |
Above the treetops of Puerto Rico flies a flock of parrots as green as their island home. . . . These are Puerto Rican parrots. They lived on this island for millions of years, and then they nearly vanished from the earth forever.
Puerto Rican parrots, once abundant, came perilously close to extinction...
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0547821832 |
In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalock's...
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
| Author | Caren Stelson |
| ISBN | 1467789038 |
This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945, and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Having conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson chronicles Sachiko’s...
