The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope
10 best books like The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope (David Kherdian): Dragon's Gate, Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944, On My Honor, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32, The Great Brain, The Snow Goose, You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount Saint Helens, Sugaring Time, Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 0064404897 |
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle.
In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields,...
| Author | Aranka Siegal |
| ISBN | 0374480796 |
The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust.
Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the...
| Author | Marion Dane Bauer |
| ISBN | 0440466334 |
"On My Honor" was always a kids' book that was personal to me. The author, Marion Dane Bauer, was raised in the same small town as my mother; Oglesby, Illinois. The events in the book are based on an actual young boy's drowning that took place when my mother and the author were both children. I grew up playing...
| Author | Joan W. Blos |
| ISBN | 0689829914 |
I, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days…do begin this book.
So begins the journal of a girl coming of age in nineteenth-century New Hampshire. Catherine records both the hardships of pioneer life and its many triumphs. Even as she struggles with her mother’s death and...
| Author | John D. Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0142400580 |
The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the kids at school, or helping out Peg-leg Andy, or Basil, the...
| Author | Paul Gallico |
| ISBN | 0140299521 |
Lyrical and touching tale set in WWII, with the climax taking place during Dunkirk. While there's a danger here of crossing over into sentimentality, for me this lovely tale transformed what could have been pat sentiments into something very heartfelt and noble. It's the kind of tale children will...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0606168486 |
I checked this out from the library thinking it would be one of Jean Fritz's picture books such as Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?--which I love! It actually ended up being a 76 page biography (with a few illustrations) but was still wonderfully lively, sensitive and humorous--not to mention...
| Author | Patricia Lauber |
| ISBN | 0689716796 |
May 18, 1980, 8:32 A.M.: An earthquake suddenly triggered an avalanche on Mount St. Helens, a volcano in southern Washington State. Minutes later, Mount St. Helens blew the top off its peak and exploded into the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
What caused the eruption?...
Prolific children's author Kathryn Lasky tells the story of sugaring season - that "time between the seasons... when winter seems tired and spring is only a hoped for thing" - in this beautifully-written work of picture-book non-fiction. Her lyrical but informative text is paired with her husband...
| Author | Rhoda Blumberg |
| ISBN | 0060086254 |
In 1853, few Japanese people knew that a country called America even existed. For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign or Japanese. The country's people still lived under a feudal...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0142407615 |
This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jean Fritz's award-winning account of her life in China, and to honor this story, it is only fitting that it be added to our prestigious line of Puffin Modern Classics. This fictionalized autobiography tells the heartwarming story of a little girl growing up...
| Author | Robert Cwiklik |
| ISBN | 0812039211 |
I didn't care much for this biography of Albert Einstein. Oh, it presented the facts of his life well enough. It also did a good job of explaining Einstein's theories and showing why they were so revolutionary. What turned me off was Mr. Cwiklik's style of presenting Einstein's life. He didn't engage...
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0395845203 |
I loved this book.
Since Eleanor's life was quite complex and complicated, I would think it a challenge to present her life to young readers, yet Freedman narrates with both a look at the failures and successes of arguably the first "working" first lady. Personally I am drawn to this book since...
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
| Author | Richard O. Boyer |
| ISBN | 0916180018 |
Fundamentally, labor's story is the story of the American people. To view it narrowly, to concentrate on the history of specific trade unions or on the careers of individuals and their rivalries, would be to miss the point that the great forces which have swept the American people into action have been...
| Author | Eleanor H. Ayer |
| ISBN | 0689832362 |
She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their pareallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0399215123 |
I don't know whether I have a mild dislike or a raging hate for this book.
In general, I love Jean Fritz's work - how she makes her subjects come to life, how she embodies them in her writing. However, I've always had a slight trouble with them: they portray her subjects in an overwhelmingly favourable...
God spoke Tibetan; the epic story of the men who gave the Bible to Tibet, the forbidden land
| Author | Allan Maberly |
| ISBN | 0890810966 |
This is the true story of the men who gave the Bible to the people of remote, forbidden Tibet in the language of the Tibetans.
Starting with the sudden death of a Dali Lama in the thousand-room palace of Lahasa, the story moves into Kashmir as a government official accused of murder escapes for...
