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Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
"Kate Douglas Wiggin tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding. Shirley Temple did a lot to make Rebecca famous when she won the world's heart in the movie we all remember. But the story is more than Temple, the film, or our memory of it: this is the tale of the...
2) Trapped behind Nazi lines: the story of the U.S. Army Air Force 807th Medical Evacuation Squadron
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the midst of World War II, a group of Army Air Force medical workers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines after surviving a plane crash. What followed were two months of sheer terror. Vivid details bring to light how they survived and the emotions they faced on a daily basis. Primary-source quotes bring the story to life.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Bea wakes to Daddy’s note in a hayloft, where he abandoned her with her little sister after the stock market crash took everything: Daddy’s job at the bank, their home, Mama’s health and life.
How is Bea supposed to convince the imposing Mrs. Scott to take in two stray children? Mrs. Scott’s money and Virginia farm are drying up in a drought and the Great Depression, too. She might have to sell her beautiful horses, starting with a dangerous...
Author
Series
Newbery medal book volume 1946
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Birdie Boyer and her hard working family raise strawberries in rural Florida, but must face the dislike of their neighbors.
5) Rufus M
Author
Series
Moffats volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The adventures of seven-year-old Rufus Moffat, living with his widowed mother and older siblings including his encounter with an invisible piano player and his attempts at ventroliquism.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom, where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in."--T.p. verso.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elsie Mae Has Something to Say is the perfect book for middle school girls and summer reading book for kids.
From the award-winning author of This Journal Belongs to Ratchet, comes a sweet and uplifting coming of age tale about friendship, sensitivity, and the importance of protecting our planet, making this the perfect growing up book for girls.
Elsie Mae is pretty sure this'll be the best summer ever.
She gets
...Author
Series
I survived volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
An 11-year-old boy fights to survive a historical disaster when the German Hindenburg airship catches fire during a fatal landing attempt in 1937 New Jersey.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
An award-winning debut novel from a stellar new voice in middle grade fiction.Matt Pin would like to forget: war torn Vietnam, bombs that fell like dead crows, and the terrible secret he left behind. But now that he is living with a caring adoptive family in the United States, he finds himself forced to confront his past. And that means choosing between silence and candor, blame and forgiveness, fear and freedom.By turns harrowing, dreamlike, sad,...
11) Beautiful Days
Author
Series
Bright young things novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
For the bright young things of 1929, the beautiful days seem endless, filled with romance and heartbreak, adventure and intrigue, friendship and rivalry. After a month in New York, Cordelia Grey and Letty Larkspur are small-town girls no longer. They spend their afternoons with Astrid Donal at the Greys' lush Long Island estate and their nights in Manhattan's bustling metropolis. But Letty's not content to be a mere socialite. She is ready at last...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pete Seeger, the iconic folk musician and multiple Grammy winner, discovered early in life that what he wanted to do was make music. His amazing career as singer, songwriter, and banjo player spanned seven decades, and included both low points (being charged with contempt of Congress) and highlights (receiving the Kennedy Center Honor from President Clinton). An activist and protester, Seeger crusaded for the rights of labor, the rights of people...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (1 volume (unpaged)) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning artist Sweet tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America--the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Author
Series
I survived volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard....
15) Esperanza rising
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
16) Freckles
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost, and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel," he determines to find out about his past.
17) The Windy Hill
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Will these two siblings help solve a family mystery? Find out in one of the earliest Newberry Honor Award winners!
Brother and sister, Oliver and Janet, are excited to spend their summer with their cousin Jasper, who has always been cheerful and fun to be around. However, when the children arrive at his home, Jasper is despondent and distracted-nothing like the cousin they know. Eventually, the children discover that their cousin has been having...
18) Night on fire
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Billie Sims comes face to face with the horrors of racism when a group calling themselves the Freedom Riders travels through Anniston to protest segregation on buses. The town greets the Freedom Riders with violence and sets their bus on fire. Billie is left shocked by the actions of the town's people she thought she knew. Will Billie stand up and fight for what is right?
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, Armstrong and Charlie learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s.
Charlie isn’t looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he’ll finish it, and he’ll be older than his older brother ever was.
Armstrong isn’t looking
...Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers ; published in Association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
vi, 88 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1920's the world was a lot different than it is today. The United States Army sent eight men on an adventure around the world in airplanes but airplanes were new, so there were complications.
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