The Road Home
10 best books like The Road Home (Ellen Emerson White): Blended, Bright Young Things, Thick as Thieves, Hattie Big Sky, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Skipping a Beat, The Demon's Lexicon, How to Lead a Life of Crime, The Season of Styx Malone, Denis Ever After
| Author | Sharon M. Draper |
| ISBN | 1442495006 |
"You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?”
Eleven-year-old Isabella is used to these kinds of comments - her father is black, her mother is white - but that doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE than...
The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: Flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.
Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty...
| Author | Megan Whalen Turner |
| ISBN | 0062568248 |
Deep within the palace of the Mede emperor, in an alcove off the main room of his master’s apartments,. Kamet minds his master’s business and his own. Carefully keeping the accounts, and his own counsel, Kamet has accumulated a few possessions, a little money stored in the household’s cashbox,...
| Author | Kirby Larson |
| ISBN | 0385733135 |
ACTUALLY THIS WAS A PLEASANT SURPRISE. Honestly I was afraid this was going to be SUPER GIRLY or SUPER ROMANCE-Y (or both). But… it really wasn’t? I mean it definitely would hold more of an appeal for girls, and it’s definitely not a new favorite, but the good news is that I only gagged once. *nods*...
| Author | Betty MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0064401480 |
Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen...
| Author | Sarah Pekkanen |
| ISBN | 1451609825 |
Julia and Michael meet in high school in their small, poverty-stricken West Virginia hometown. Both products of difficult childhoods -- Julia’s father is a compulsive gambler and Michael’s mother abandoned his family when he was a young boy – they find a sense of safety and mutual understanding...
| Author | Sarah Rees Brennan |
| ISBN | 1416963790 |
Sixteen-year-old Nick and his brother, Alan, are always ready to run. Their father is dead, and their mother is crazy—she screams if Nick gets near her. She’s no help in protecting any of them from the deadly magicians who use demons to work their magic. The magicians want a charm that Nick’s mother...
How to Lead a Life of Crime
| Author | Kirsten Miller |
| ISBN | 1595145184 |
A meth dealer. A prostitute. A serial killer.
Anywhere else, they’d be vermin. At the Mandel Academy, they’re called prodigies. The most exclusive school in New York City has been training young criminals for over a century. Only the most ruthless students are allowed to graduate. The...
The Season of Styx Malone
| Author | Kekla Magoon |
| ISBN | 1524715956 |
Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their house in Sutton, Indiana. Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town, but his dad likes the family to stay close to home.
Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx...
| Author | Tony Abbott |
| ISBN | 0062491245 |
Denis Egan is dead.
He’s okay with that. It’s been five years since he died, and the place where souls go is actually pretty nice. Sure, there are some things about his life and how it ended he can’t quite recall, but that’s how it’s supposed to be. Remembering could prevent Denis from...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0064408493 |
Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has ventured to the unknown wilds of the Northwest to wed her childhood idol, William Baldt. But her impeccable training at Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia is hardly preparation for the colorful characters and crude life that await her in Washington...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0064408817 |
"Remember -- you make your own luck." Abandoned on the frontier by her faithless fiance, Jane Peck prepares to head home, only to learn that the Philadelphia life she once knew is no more. But can a proper young lady find happiness as the only woman in a primitive pioneer settlement? Armed with only a finishing-school...
His world was water and rhythm. Hard work and drive kept Royal O'Connell one step ahead of his competition. His spot on the swim team, keeping his scholarship, was the only plan that mattered.
His world was ebony and ivory. Natural talent and ambition set Camden Morgan apart from the other music...
**Stand Alone**
Her world was color. Canvas and paint. Indie O’Connell lived inside her head. Her voices the muse. And as a freshman at St. Peter's College, all she wanted, was to create a name for herself with the brush in her hand.
His world was over. Despite his humble upbringing, Kai...
Paige Simon was the only girl Declan ever loved. The only one capable of silencing his voices, the only person to ever have faith in who he was, until the day her faith turned to doubt and destroyed everything they’d made together.
Declan O ’Connell was the only person Paige could be herself...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0064408825 |
Jane Peck is a nineteenth-century girl with a mind of her own and a handsome suitor who loves her for it. She's outwitted wild animals, vengeful ghosts, and a disloyal fiance, but when her finishing school nemesis, Sally Biddle, invades the Washington Territory, Jane finds everything she holds dear...
The Accidental Beauty Queen
Charlotte Gorman loves her job as an elementary school librarian, and is content to experience life through the pages of her books. Which couldn’t be more opposite from her identical twin sister. Ginny, an Instagram-famous beauty queen, has been chasing a crown since she was old enough to say "world...
, My true accounting about the horror of the Viet Nam "conflict", it's effect on the BOYS who fought it, and a Country that chose to turn it's back. It is an intense emotional journey of a combat platoon leader in Viet nam. From childhood to adulthood in one year, I changed from a carefree teenager into a hardened...
Stop War America: A Marine's Story
| Author | Robert Mclane |
| ISBN | 0961852933 |
This is not a story about a "Poster Marine." The author takes you on a journey from a summer of love in San Francisco, with sex, drugs, and rock and roll, to 13 months in Vietnam during the bloodiest year of the war. During the war he served with a Marine artillery unit, where he did firing support for Marine...
ABANDONED: A Vietnam War Love Story
Who or what would you think about if you were wounded and left abandoned behind enemy lines in combat to fend for yourself in rugged terrain with only your pistol as a weapon for protection? Would you strike out on your own toward a friendly location, or would you stay and wait for rescue from a force that...
| Author | Beth Hautala |
| ISBN | 0525426310 |
GRL - W
DRA - 60
LX - 840
I was pleasantly surprised by this book as I had it hanging around for a while before I plunged into reading it. I began taking notes early on in my reading and might just end up sharing my thoughts as I journeyed through the book.
First, this book is not for...
A Code to Keep: The True Story of America's Longest-Held Civilian POW in Vietnam
This is the true story of a man's lonely triumph over adversity. Ernest C. Brace was a decorated Marine pilot, the first to fly one hundred missions in the Korean War. A little more than five years later, however, a fateful accident and a hastily made decision stripped him of his rank, and he was dishonorably...
Vietnam Diary: A Memoir for my Posterity
"Greetings from the President." I had just been drafted into the US Army. It was the last thing I expected, and it was certainly not what my parents or fiancee wanted to hear. Enclosed in these pages are my personal experiences from a tour served in Vietnam during the war. This book is written in my own words,...
Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home
| Author | Matthew Kepnes |
| ISBN | 1250190517 |
Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adventures abroad, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad.
"Matt is possibly the most well-traveled person I know...His knowledge and passion for understanding the world...
In Search Of Honor: Book 2 In The Apache Snow Series
Book 2 of the Apache Snow Series
Over 58,000 men and women bravely gave up their lives in the 10-year Vietnam War. Now, reverently remembered, their names are etched upon “The Wall” in Washington D.C. But, what of the millions who fought in this unpopular war? Men and women, who came home, were...
The Sharp End: my war in Vietnam
Most books written about the Vietnam War have focused on either the politics associated with this conflict, or the military tactics which were used against the enemy. Not much has been written about what life was like for the ordinary soldier who was at the sharp end of this politically unpopular war...
Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most
Like most teachers, you want to use your life to make an impact — not only in the classroom, but in your family, community, and the world.
And yet it feels impossible to have that focus when you’re exhausted and overwhelmed.
How can you make a difference when you’re distracted...
The Journey. The extended version: A Tale of the Holocaust.
