Tag Archives: United States

The Luxe

Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Anna Godbersen
Publisher: HarperCollins

Book Description
Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.
This is Manhattan, 1899.
Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan’s social scene. Or so it appears. [...]

How to Prepare for the SAT: 2007-2008 (Barron’s How to Prepare for the Sat I (Book Only))

Rating: (69 reviews)
Author: Sharon Weiner Green, Ph.D., Ira K. Wolf
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series

Book Description
The 2007 edition of Barron’s SAT test preparation manual presents one diagnostic test and six full-length practice SATs, all of which reflect the new SAT in length, question types, and degree of difficulty. This manual offers an overview [...]

Henry’s Freedom Box (Caldecott Honor Book)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Book Description
Henry Brown doesn’t know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves’ birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. When [...]

Little Women (Signet Classics)

Rating: (66 reviews)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: Signet Classics

Book Description
In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.

Revolutionary War On Wednesday (Magic Tree House 22, paper)

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Amazon.com
If it’s Wednesday, it must be Revolutionary War day. Jack and Annie, stars of the Magic Tree House series, are in for another adventure in their time- and space-traveling tree house. Mysterious magical librarian Morgan le Fay [...]

Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Book Description
Scoring high on the AP U.S. History Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about American history—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP U.S. History [...]

Elijah Of Buxton (Newbery Honor Book)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Book Description
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’s best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change [...]

Christmas “Book at Bedtime” (BBC Radio 4)

Author: Laurie Lee, Charles Dickens, H.C. Andersen
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah’s Book Club)

Rating: (147 reviews)
Author: Carson McCullers
Publisher: Mariner

Book Description
With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters’ inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers’ finest work, [...]

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell
Publisher: Night Shade Books

Book Description
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the [...]

The Teachers’ Night Before Christmas (Night Before Christmas Series)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Steven L. Layne, Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company

The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Johnny Ray Moore
Publisher: Ideals Publications

Book Description
This little boardbook uses only approximately 200 words to tell about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and to explain, in simple terms, how he ended segegation in America

Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932 (Dear America Series)

Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Amazon.com
To 11-year-old Minnie Swift, Christmas, 1932, is not going to be the time of bounty she’s used to. Instead, it has become the “Time of the Dwindling.” The Great Depression has changed everything: Minnie’s father is working fewer and fewer hours, her [...]

Rover Saves Christmas

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Roddy Doyle
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Amazon.com
Although most grownups know Roddy Doyle better from his Barrytown comic novels (including The Commitments), he’s thankfully returned for a children’s book follow-up to his ridiculously ridiculous The Giggler Treatment. What’s the cast of kids from that nimble-witted book leaving on the mantel for [...]

The Wounded Buzzard on Christmas Eve #13 (Hank the Cowdog)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: John R. Erickson
Publisher: Puffin

Samantha’s Surprise: A Christmas Story (American Girls Collection)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Maxine Rose Schur, Rose Schur
Publisher: American Girl

A Little House Christmas Treasury: Festive Holiday Stories (Little House)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: HarperCollins

Book Description
Celebrate the holidays with Laura and her family with stories from the beloved Little House books!

The Shepherd And Other Christmas Stories: The Gift Of The Magi, The Cricket On The Hearth, Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus, Hoodoo Mcgiggin And Christmas Cake Recipe

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Frederick Forsyth, O. Henry, Charles Dickens, Francis P. Church, Stephen Leacock
Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)

Gossip Girl Boxed Set

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Poppy

Timothy Cratchit’s Christmas Carol, 1917

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Dale Powell, Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dickens World

Book Description
The original sequel to a Christmas Carol from DickensWorld. Get it in its original form. No more copies of this version of this critically acclaimed masterpiece will be printed.

A Pioneer Christmas: Celebrating in the Backwoods in 1841

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Barbara Greenwood
Publisher: Kids Can Press, Ltd.

Book Description
Combining fiction and nonfiction, this dramatic story set in the snowy backwoods follows the Robertson family as they prepare for Christmas in 1841. They are excitedly expecting visitors from afar. But as a winter storm begins to rage, the family fears for [...]

The Annotated Wizard of Oz (Centennial Edition)

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: W. W. Norton

Amazon.com
An updated version of the definitive guide, The Annotated Wizard of Oz provides a facsimile color version of the first edition of L. Frank Baum’s children’s classic along with extensive notes and a thorough history of the immense Oz project. [...]

Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House

Book Description
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and [...]

Christmas Stories (Little House Chapter Book)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Book Description
Gentle adaptations of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s celebrated Little House stories have been gathered together here in two new titles in our Little House Chapter Book series. In Christmas Stories, join Laura and her family for some pioneer Christmas celebrations. Christmas on the frontier means [...]

Christmas in the Trenches

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: John McCutcheon
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Product Description
Nominated for a GRAMMY Award in the Best Spoken Word Album for Children category!

Prom Nights from Hell

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Meg Cabot, Stephenie Meyer, Kim Harrison, Lauren Myracle, Michele Jaffe
Publisher: HarperTeen

Book Description
In this exciting collection, bestselling authors Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms), Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty), Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), and Lauren Myracle (ttyl) take bad prom nights to a whole new [...]

Hattie Big Sky

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: Kirby Larson
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle’s homesteading claim.
For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie’s been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle’s homestead claim [...]

The Man in the High Castle

Rating: (158 reviews)
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Vintage

Book Description
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war–and [...]

The Chosen

Rating: (291 reviews)
Author: Chaim Potok
Publisher: Fawcett
Amazon.com
Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they live. Though on the surface it explores religious faith–the intellectually committed as well as the passionately observant–the struggles addressed in The [...]

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Kingfisher

Book Description
This authoritative reference book brings world history to life, from early humans to the current war on terror. Along the way, it reveals riveting facts on the founding of the great Roman Empire, the revolution that changed France forever, the war between the North and [...]