Tag Archives: United States

If You Lived In Colonial Times (If You.)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Ann Mcgovern
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

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Ann McGovern’s gay and informative book gives young readers a vivid picture of life in colonial New England from 1659 to 1730. The drawings help children imagine what it was really like to be a boy or girl in colonial days. [...]

Chains

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight…for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist [...]

A Smart Girls Guide to Boys: Surviving Crushes, Staying True to Yourself & Other Stuff (American Girl Library)

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Nancy Holyoke
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

Samantha: An American Girl (The American Girls Collection/Boxed Set)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Susan S. Adler
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

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The American Girls Collection. This is Samantha. There are 6 books about Samantha and her family and friends.

Frankenstein Takes the Cake

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Adam Rex
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books

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No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread. Then there’s the Headless Horseman, who wishes [...]

Identical

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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Do twins begin in the womb?Or in a better place?Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family — on the surface. Behind the facade each sister [...]

The Broom of the System

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year [...]

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Rating: (184 reviews)
Author: Gennifer Choldenko
Publisher: Puffin

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Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It’s 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that’s home to criminals like notorious [...]

America : A Patriotic Primer

Rating: (69 reviews)
Author: Lynne Cheney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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Written by Lynne Cheney, author and wife of Vice President Richard Cheney, to honor this “beautiful land made more beautiful still by our commitment to freedom,” America: A Patriotic Primer is a proud celebration of [...]

We the People: The Story of Our Constitution

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Lynne Cheney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

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America had won the Revolution, but our troubles were far from over. The thirteen states were squabbling, the country could not pay its bills, and in Massachusetts farmers had taken up arms against the government. Was our country, which had fought [...]

My Dad, John McCain

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Meghan McCain
Publisher: Aladdin

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Born the son and grandson of military men, Senator John McCain from Arizona was destined for a life serving his country in the armed forces. Like many great men, he occasionally struggled with authority, but once he found his true calling — flying naval aircraft [...]

A Young People’s History of the United States, Vol. 1: Columbus to the Robber Barons

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Seven Stories Press

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Praise for A People’s History of the United States:
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid [...]

America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher: Collins

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Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don’t Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation’s destiny and character. Davis’s dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths [...]

Tracks

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust [...]

All the Places to Love

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: Joanna Cotler

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Within the sanctuary of a loving family, baby Eli is born and, as he grows, “learns to cherish the people and places around him, eventualy passing on what he has discovered to his new baby sister, Sylvie: ‘All the places to love are here [...]

Walt Disney’s Legends of Imagineering and the Genesis of the Disney Theme Park

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Jeff Kurtti
Publisher: Disney Editions

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Fifty years ago, Walt Disney utterly transformed the concept of outdoor entertainment venues from tawdry carnivals and seedy amusement piers called “amusement parks,” to an entirely new destination that would come into common vernacular as the “theme park.” Although Disneyland was the inspiration of [...]

A Lion to Guard Us

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: HarperTrophy

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`A favorite author uses an actual incident from 1609 to base a story of three impoverished children left alone in London who make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. . . . Fine engrossing historical fiction.’ —TE. [...]

By the Great Horn Spoon!

Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Inc. Sid Fleischman
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Birchbark House, The

Rating: (51 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

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Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the [...]

The House on Mango Street

Rating: (602 reviews)
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage

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Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros’s greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught [...]

Encyclopedia of World History

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Jane Bingham
Publisher: Usborne Books

The Plague of Doves: A Novel

Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper

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Louise Erdrich’s mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of [...]

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (rpkg) (HarperClassics)

Rating: (406 reviews)
Author: Avi
Publisher: HarperTrophy

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A vicious captain, a mutinous crew – and a young girl caught in the middle
Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen [...]

The Scrambled States of America

Rating: (62 reviews)
Author: Laurie Keller
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

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One day, Kansas wakes up grumpy. The other 49 states are stretching, yawning, and pouring maple syrup onto each other’s pancakes, but irritable Kansas announces to his kindly neighbor Nebraska that life is dull and changes must be made: “All day long [...]

Kit an American Girl (6 Book Set)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl

“What’s Happening to Me?” A guide to puberty

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Lyle Stuart