Karen Hesse
4) Safekeeping
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Radley returns to the United States after volunteering abroad, she comes back to a country under military rule with strict travel restrictions, and she must find her way back to her Vermont home through the New England woods.
5) Witness
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
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Language
English
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Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
9) My thumb
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows the antics of a happy little girl who explains how sucking her thumb is comforting and that her parents do not need to worry about it.
10) Night job
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What is it like to work at night, while the rest of the city is asleep? Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse's quietly powerful story of a boy and his father is tenderly brought to life by G. Brian Karas in this luminous tribute to an enduring, everyday sort of love.
11) Sable
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Series
Language
English
Description
Tate Marshall is delighted when a stray dog turns up in the yard one day, but Sable, named for her dark, silky fur, causes trouble with the neighbors and has to go.
16) Stowaway
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
17) Granny and Bean
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A loving grandmother and her grandchild enjoy an adventure by the sea and stop to have tea.
18) Aleutian sparrow
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese.
20) Spuds
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Maybelle, Jack, and Eddie want to help Ma by putting something extra on the table, so they set out in the dark to take potatoes from a nearby field, but when they arrive home and empty their potato sacks, they are surprised by what they see.
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