Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to care for Grandmother Clark. Paris Junction is nothing like her Texas hometown. And now she's been thrown together with, troubled Willis DeLoach, gossipy Melinda Bowman, and Billy Wong, a Chinese-American boy who has his own troubles. Billy's parents own the Lucky Foods grocery store, where days are long, and folks aren't always friendly. Inspired by the true stories of Chinese immigrants who came to the American south during the civil rights era, t...
A Horse Called Starfire (Bank Street Ready-To-Read)
by Betty D Boegehold
Lone Owl and his son Wolf Cub encounter a horse for the first time.
The Forty-Acre Swindle (Trailblazer Books, #31) (Trailblazer Books (Numbered), #31)
by Dave Jackson and Neta Jackson
Freed from slavery, Jesse Turner and his family find freedom to be no easier. The advice of George Washington Carver provides some hope, but will his empowering words and innovative ideas be enough when danger arrives? Ages 8-12.
As flood waters sweep his house down the Mississippi River, a boy is joined by a mountain lion who is also trying desperately to stay alive.
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have more in common than their twisted names, they have both learned that their parents are getting divorced, and while on their class trip to San Francisco they go off on their own to talk about the divorces and fall asleep but when they wake up they find the Golden Gate Bridge gone and they meet a man named Sam Clemens who is on the run from a mysterious stranger. Lee Jones and Joan Lee have more in common than their twisted names. They have learned that th...
People of the Breaking Day (Aladdin Picture Books)
by Marcia Sewall
We are Wampanoags, People of the Breaking Day. Nippa'uus the Sun, in his journey through the sky, warms us first as he rises over the rim of the sea. At his birth each new morning we say, "Thank you, Nippa'uus, for returning to us with your warmth and light and beauty." But it is Kiehtan, the Great Spirit, who made us all: we, the two-legged who stand tall, and the four-legged; those that swim and those that fly and the little people who crawl; and flowers and trees and rocks. He made us all, b...
For as long as Margaret Ann Motley can remember, she has been waiting and hoping for one thing -- a room to call her very own. And when Margaret's older sister leaves for college, it looks like Margaret's days of waiting are over. But then disaster strikes. Its form: an English cousin named Courtney who has been forced to flee 1941 London because of the blitz. Not at all concerned with what's happening in Europe, Margaret Ann is soon fighting a war of her own as she watches her cousin Courtney g...
Lost & Found Colony (JMP History Mystery Detectives, #1)
by Faith Reese Martin
At the request of her sixth grade teacher, Edwina Rose Sachs records events in the lives of her Polish immigrant family and their friends living in Brooklyn in the early 1900s.
Two sisters struggle with their roles as women within the family and within society as an arsonist threatens their post-Civil War Vermont community.
A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.
A collection of stories of life in the late nineteenth century, many reflecting the Christian faith of the author's family, including tales of pride in a new dress, a special apron for grandpa, and a little girl lost while asleep in her own bed.
El Beisbol Nos Salvo / Baseball Saved Us
by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee