Quick view The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Paul Fleischman A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. View Details
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Quick view The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. View Details
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Quick view In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord Ten-year-old Bandit Wong emigrates to America in 1947 from China and assimilates into the Chinese-American Shirley Temple Wong View Details
Quick view Dragonwings by Laurence Yep In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. View Details
Quick view The Adventures of Laura & Jack by Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura and her loyal bulldog, Jack, share a special friendship and many exciting adventures growing up together on the frontier. What would she do without her good old bulldog, Jack? View Details
Quick view Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson In this picture-book biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, noted "Little House" scholar William Anderson and artist Dan Andreasen create a glowing portrait of the little girl known as "Half-Pint, " whose pioneer adventures have made her one of the most... View Details
Quick view Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors. View Details
Quick view Weasel by Cynthia C DeFelice Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge. View Details
Quick view By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder In Dakota territory, Pa has a job in a railroad building camp and Laura, the central character in the story, is now 13. View Details
Quick view More Perfect Than the Moon by Patricia MacLachlan The fourth book in the Sarah, Plain and Tall series by Newbery Medalist MacLachlan, now in paperback, continues the classic tale of the Witting family's life on the prairie. View Details