True North

7 best books like True North (Kathryn Lasky): Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, Shakespeare's Spy, Parvana's Journey, The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding, Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave, Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution, Takeoffs and Landings

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

Author	James Hilton
ISBN	0316010138

Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster.

Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Brookfield School since 1870, takes readers on a beguiling journey through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sometimes Chips, as he is affectionately known, is an old man who dreams by the fire;...

Shakespeare's Spy

Author	Gary L. Blackwood
ISBN	0142403113

Things are disappearing mysteriously from Will Shakespeare's acting company, and it looks like an inside job. Everyone's eyes are on Widge, the orphan boy turned actor, and former thief. Widge knows better than anyone that Shakespeare's plays must be protected at all costs. In order to prove his innocence...

Parvana's Journey

Author	Deborah Ellis
ISBN	0888995199

In Parvana's Journey, the Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Parvana's father has just died, and her mother, sister, and brother could be anywhere in the country. Parvana knows she must find them. Despite her youth, Parvana sets out alone, masquerading as a boy. She soon meets...

The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding

Author

Suzanne Oliver

""Welcome to the Faith Club. We're three mothers from three faiths -- Islam, Christianity, and Judaism -- who got together to write a picture book for our children that would highlight the connections between our religions. But no sooner had we started talking about our beliefs and how to explain them...

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

Author	Virginia Hamilton
ISBN	0679839976

Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton's powerful true account of the sensational trial of a fugitive slave.

The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston. But according to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway can be captured in any free state, and Anthony...

Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution

Author	Seymour Reit
ISBN	0152164359

This is a decent little book - a quick read at 140 pages - about a group of heroic men, led by Commander Knox of the Continental Army, who faced many challenges in moving heavy cannon from Ft. Ticonderoga, NY, down the Hudson, and east across the Berkshire Mountains and all of Massachusetts to Boston, at...

Takeoffs and Landings

Author	Margaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN	0689855435

A journey to the center of their hearts

Ever since their father's sudden death eight years ago, Chuck and Lori's mom has spent most of her time on the road as a motivational speaker, leaving them and their younger siblings in the care of their grandparents. But this trip is different; this time,...