Where Will I Live?
10 best books like Where Will I Live? (Rosemary McCarney): Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey, Moonhead and the Music Machine, That's That: A Memoir, Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, Tru & Nelle: A Christmas Tale, America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East, Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-Or-Break Moment, Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers, Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!, Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
| Author | Joy Cowley |
| ISBN | 0590469770 |
Text-to-World
Somewhere in the world, at this exact moment, there is a little boy or girl living with his grandparents and aunt, waiting for his or her father or mother to come home from work. In this light- hearted, realistic fiction book, “Gracias, The Thanksgiving Turkey,” this is part...
| Author | Andrew Rae |
| ISBN | 1907704787 |
Life's a peach when you've got a moon for a head and your head's in space. You can wander out of the Earth's atmosphere on intergalactic daydreams, drift blissfully across star-speckled skies and fly close to the Sun, like a fireproof Icarus.
Snap! Back to reality—having a moon for a head at...
| Author | Colin Broderick |
| ISBN | 0307716333 |
How can we know who we are if we do not understand where we came from?
Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone --the heart of rebel country. In That’s That,...
| Author | Jeanne Walker Harvey |
As a child, Maya Lin loved to study the spaces around her. She explored the forest in her backyard, observing woodland creatures, and used her house as a model to build tiny towns out of paper and scraps. The daughter of a clay artist and a poet, Maya grew up with art and learned to think with her hands as well...
| Author | G. Neri |
| ISBN | 1328685985 |
When they were younger, Tru and Nelle were best friends, sharing adventures and solving mysteries in Monroeville, Alabama. But then Tru moved to New York City to live his mother and their friendship slowly faded away. Life in the big city wasn't as fun as Tru had hoped it would be. In fact, he ran away, and...
From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability—far from it. Indeed,...
| Author | Carla Killough McClafferty |
| ISBN | 1467710679 |
When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment--fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last chance: change...
| Author | Sarah E. Warren |
| ISBN | 0761461078 |
I loved this book. It strikes a good balance for kids (and people in general) by not patronizing but also not bogging itself down with too many details or lofty language. Dolores is shown as a dynamic person capable of many different roles -- she is described as a teacher, detective, friend, warrior, organizer,...
| Author | Andrea J. Loney |
| ISBN | 1620142600 |
James Van Der Zee was just a young boy when he saved enough money to buy his first camera. He took photos of his family, classmates, and anyone who would sit still for a portrait. By the fifth grade, James was the school photographer and unofficial town photographer. Eventually he outgrew his small town...
| Author | Matt Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0306821761 |
These stories aren’t pretty and they aren’t for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this collection...
| Author | Jewell Reinhart Coburn |
| ISBN | 1885008015 |
Ten ethnic versions of Cinderella story from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Middle East are summarized and worked into lessons for the middle and upper grades. Each story is accompanied by a Booktalk for review, a Motifs & Ideas for discussion, a Connection to a subject area, and a Vocabulary...
| Author | Susan M. Margeson |
| ISBN | 0756610958 |
The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures. Loaded with superb color photographs of Viking ships and swords, clothes and shields, memorial stones and beautiful brooches,...
| Author | Richard Platt |
| ISBN | 0756607132 |
I shared this book with a year 2 boy whilst on my alternative placement. He was totally enthralled by the information and pictures.
The book has many chapters detailing the lives of pirates. It has links to history with the pirates of ancient Greece section and further links with pirates of the...
| Author | Margriet Ruurs |
| ISBN | 1459814908 |
This unique picture book was inspired by the stone artwork of Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr, discovered by chance by Canadian children's writer Margriet Ruurs. The author was immediately impressed by the strong narrative quality of Mr. Badr's work, and, using many of Mr. Badr's already-created pieces,...
| Author | Marcus Eriksen |
| ISBN | 0807056405 |
An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft"
News media brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--the famous swirling gyre of plastic pollution...
| Author | IraqiGirl |
| ISBN | 1931859736 |
This book was brought to my attention by one of my high school students and I can't thank her enough for it. This is a terrific YA book about a young woman who begins a blog about her life in Mosul, Iraq at age 15 in 2004. The topics she covers are the profound and banal, but life isn't very banal when bombs kill...
| Author | Gretel Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0307907317 |
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter...
This book is stunning. The gorgeous cover caught my attention while I was cataloging it, and I had to pause to read through. I can't decide which element of it is the best (that's a lie, it's obviously the spectacular illustrations)—but the subject itself is fascinating, and even the author's and illustrator's...
Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability
| Author | Shane Burcaw |
| ISBN | 1626727716 |
Shane Burcaw was born with a rare disease called spinal muscular atrophy, which hinders his muscles' growth. As a result, his body hasn't grown bigger and stronger as he's gotten older--it's gotten smaller and weaker instead. This hasn't stopped him from doing the things he enjoys (like eating pizza...
Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer
Grab your lantern and follow the remarkable and world-famous Mammoth Cave explorer—and slave—Stephen Bishop as he guides you through the world’s largest cave system in this remarkable homage to the resilience of human nature.
Welcome to Mammoth Cave. It’s 1840 and my name’s...
| Author | Steffan Piper |
| ISBN | 1469236575 |
Nineteen-year-old Sebastien Ranes spends his days knocking around Eagle River, Alaska, and his nights working as a janitor. His girlfriend’s father hates him, and his own parents’ opinion of him isn’t much better.
Broke and down on his luck, Sebastien robs a grocery store, making...
Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
| Author | Noliwe Rooks |
| ISBN | 1620972484 |
Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education--today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars--there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized...
Lost and Found Cat : The True Story of Kunkush's Incredible Journey
| Author | Doug Kuntz |
| ISBN | 1524715476 |
The true story about one cat’s journey to be reunited with his war-torn family has been seen by millions of people and is now a heartwarming picture book.
When an Iraqi family is forced to flee their home, they can’t bear to leave their beloved cat, Kunkush, behind. So they carry him with them...
| Author | Simon Adams |
| ISBN | 0756630088 |
Did you know that "throughout the war, many men and women braved their lives by entering enemy-occupied countries. They went to spy on the invading forces, work with resistance fighters, and carry out acts of sabotage to foil enemy plan" (pg 26) Eyewitness:World War 2 features information about the...
