The Truth About Sparrows
8 best books like The Truth About Sparrows (Marian Hale): The House Next Door, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story, Rascal, The Education of Little Tree, Resistance, An Elephant in the Garden, Home Run
| Author | Anne Rivers Siddons |
| ISBN | 0061008737 |
Thirty-something Colquitt and Walter Kennedy live in a charming, peaceful suburb of the newly bustling Atlanta. Life is made up of enjoyable work, long, lazy weekends, and the company of good neighbors. Then, to their shock, construction starts on the vacant lot next door, a wooded hillside they'd...
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story
| Author | Nora Raleigh Baskin |
From the critically acclaimed author of Anything But Typical comes a touching look at the days leading up to the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and how that day impacted the lives of four middle schoolers.
Ask anyone: September 11, 2001, was serene and lovely, a perfect day — until a plane...
| Author | Sterling North |
| ISBN | 0140344454 |
Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together--until the spring day when everything suddenly changes.
Rascal is a heartwarming boyhood...
The Education of Little Tree
| Author | Forrest Carter |
| ISBN | 0826328091 |
The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. Little Tree as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains,...
| Author | Jennifer A. Nielsen |
Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference. Using forged...
An Elephant in the Garden
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 0312593694 |
With Lizzie’s father fighting in World War II, her mother takes on the job of a zoo keeper to provide for her family. Lizzie, her mother, and her eight-year-old brother Karli have become especially attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene. The bombing of Dresden is imminent and soon, so the zoo...
| Author | Travis Thrasher |
| ISBN | 0781408385 |
Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win. But off the field, he’s spiraling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past.
Until one moment—one mistake—changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began....
