Robert Churchwell: Writing News, Making History
by Gloria Respress-Churchwell
A Growing Suspicion (American Girl: Rebecca Mysteries)
by Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Volunteering at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in the early 1900s, Jewish cousins Rebecca and Ana must find the real culprit when they are unfairly blamed for a series of mishaps in the Japanese garden.
Because Rosie, who lives in Little Italy, wants to be a modern American girl, she finds a way to make her dream come true while celebrating the feast of St. Gennaro.
The Second Decade (Century Kids)
by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler
Fifth grader Annie is just like every other girl in her small suburban town. Except she s starting to realize that she isn t.
In 1961 Alabama, twelve-year-old Johnny tries to keep his promise to look after his disabled Pa when his older brother leaves for military service, but secrets from the past, Cuban politics, and racial tensions would make the task challenging even for his hero, Superman.
In the sixties, when Sheryl's Uncle Pete joins the Freedom Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert in Brooklyn to help him.
In 1900 in Galveston, Texas, twelve-year-old Charlie, who fears the sea because of a boating accident that killed his father, overcomes his personal demons to survive a terrible hurricane.
In Franny’s daydreams, Aunt Estelle had returned to New York City with no plans in the future to come back to Easterbrook. Franny had her mother to herself again. She would follow Margaret Hall to the kitchen and they’d sit at the table together, drinking hot chocolate and reading the letter from Ferragamo.'Signor Ferragamo says COME, so we’ll go,' her mother would say. 'Think of it, Franny! You’ll be the only girl in Easterbrook EVER to go to Italy.''When will we go?' she’d ask.'We’ll go immedi...
In 1932, a twelve-year-old girl who lost her sight in an accident keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she describes life at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.
When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.
During the Depression, Gunther Grunt buys a new car with the money his wife has been saving to send their bright twelve-year-old daughter to college, beginning a chain of events that teaches the Grunts the value of their family.
El Beisbol Nos Salvo / Baseball Saved Us
by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee