The Story Of Thomas Alva Edison
10 best books like The Story Of Thomas Alva Edison (Margaret Davidson): Across Five Aprils, Caddie Woodlawn, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, The Wright Brothers, A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, Father and I Were Ranchers, You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, The Great Wheel, The Great Turkey Walk, 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| ISBN | 0425182789 |
Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."
I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way...
| Author | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| ISBN | 1416940286 |
Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don't understand her at all. Caddie is brave,...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black—to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It...
| Author | Quentin Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0394847008 |
In this book, the author Quentin Reynolds’ purpose in writing it was to share the story of the Wright brothers and the airplane with the world. Although Quentin did not state his purpose directly in the book, it is clear that was his purpose. The audience for this book is a big range of ages. A 13 year old...
| Author | C. Coco De Young |
| ISBN | 0440415292 |
Eleven-year-old Margo Bandini has never been afraid of anything. Her life in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with Mama and Papa and her little brother, Charlie, has always felt secure. But it's 1933, and the Great Depression is changing things for families all across America.
One day the impossible...
Father and I Were Ranchers
| Author | Ralph Moody |
| ISBN | 0803281781 |
Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes, the pleasures and perils of ranching in the early twentieth century are experienced... auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms all give authentic...
| 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 | Robert Lawson |
| ISBN | 0802777058 |
"Your fortune lies to the west. Keep your face to the sunset . . . and one day you'll ride the greatest wheel in all the world." When Aunt Honora reads this fortune in his tea leaves, Conn Kilroy knows he is destined for greater things than his small Irish village can offer. A letter from his uncle Michael in...
| Author | Kathleen Karr |
| ISBN | 0374427984 |
Yeeeeeee-haw! Git along, little . . . turkeys?
Big, brawny Simon Green, who's just completed third grade (for the fourth time), may not be book smart, but he's nobody's fool. When it's time to be done with school and make his way in the world, Simon hatches a plan that could earn him a bundle. He...
12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
| Author | Tony Reinke |
| ISBN | 1433552434 |
Do You Control Your Phone—Or Does Your Phone Control You? Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun...
