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Stories of my life
By Katherine Paterson. 2014
From her childhood in China to the moment she won her first National Book Award, literary icon Katherine Paterson shares…
the personal stories that inspired her children's books. For Junior and Senior High readers. 2014.Ray Bradbury: master of science fiction and fantasy (Authors teens love)
By Wendy Mass. 2004
As a boy, Ray Bradbury had a wild and vivid imagination, which came in handy later when he became a…
science fiction and fantasy writer. Bradbury has written more than 500 literary works (beginning in 1938) including "The Martian chronicles" and "Fahrenheit 451", which incorporate his love of outer space, magic, and mystery. Includes a time line, a list of selected works, a glossary, and a short interview with the writer. Grades 5-8. 2004.Land beyond the river: Europe in the age of migration
By Richard B Lyttle. 1986
This history of Europe from the 2nd through the 9th centuries brings to life migrating Vandals, Goths, Huns, Vikings, Moslems,…
Mongols, Angles and Saxons, along with figures such as Genghis Khan, Alfred the Great, Mohammed and Attila the Hun. For junior and senior high readers. c1986.Black potatoes: the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2001
Chronicles the disaster that occurred in Ireland when the potato crop failed for five years straight. Describes the heartbreaking plight…
of the peasants, who depended on potatoes for all their meals. A million died of starvation, and many more were forced to emigrate to America. Grades 5-8. Winner of Robert F. Sibert Award. 2001.A home for foundlings
By Marthe Jocelyn. 2005
Inspired by a desire to learn about her grandfather's childhood in an English orphanage, the author researched the London Foundling…
Hospital. Founded in 1739, the institution took in babies whose desperate mothers might otherwise have abandoned them, and trained them to be useful citizens. With benefactors like the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel, the facility cared for approximately 27,000 children for over 200 years. Grades 5-8. 2005.Victoria: Queen And Empress (Immortals of history)
By Neil Grant. 1970
There once was a world: a nine-hundred-year chronicle of the shtetl of Eishyshok
By Yaffa Eliach. 1998
The author was a young child when the massacre of September 26, 1941, left almost no survivors in her home…
of Eishyshok--one of the oldest Jewish settlements in Europe. Her recreation of the shtetl's history describes community life, which centred around the homes, schools, and synagogues. 1998.The young writer's handbook
By Susan J Tchudi, Stephen Tchudi. 1984
Discusses journal, letter and creative writing as well as school reports and other factual pieces. Offers ideas for finding subjects,…
editing and getting published. For junior and senior high readers. 1984.Growing up in 13th century England
By Alfred Leo Duggan. 1962
An account of how young people in England lived and were trained for adulthood in the 1270's. Describes the everyday…
lives of children from different social classes. For junior and senior high readers. 1962.Romans
By John Farman. 1998
A children's English history in verse
By Kenneth Baker. 1999
Tracing the history of England from Boadicea to the present through verse, this anthology contains work by many of the…
greatest English poets and is divided into historical periods. Each section includes background information on the period and a running narrative to set the poetry in context. For junior and senior high students.Girls belong outdoors! This handbook covers everything you need to get outside, including ideas for what to do, camping and…
hiking basics, body stuff in the wilderness, advanced skills like maps, weather, and first aid, as well as recipes, projects, activities, and profiles of inspiring outdoorswomen.Your definitive guide to getting outside--for girls ages 9-12! In addition to basic outdoor skills, this entertaining guidebook includes easy camping recipes, outdoor projects including science experiments and crafts, fun activity suggestions, and inspiring stories of diverse historical and contemporary outdoorswomen (such as Arunima Sinha, the first amputee woman to summit Mount Everest; Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts; and Libby Riddles, first woman to win the Iditarod). The goal is to improve the quality of girls' outdoor time by increasing participation and independence, making them feel comfortable and safe, and giving them essential skills and knowledge. Charming and approachable, this book will encourage both reluctant campers and budding naturalists to go wild and embrace the outdoors.To look a Nazi in the eye: a teen's account of a war criminal trial
By Kathy Kacer, Jordana Lebowitz. 2017
Recounts the events that led Jordana Lebowitz, a young Canadian college student, to travel to Germany to attend the war…
criminal trial of Oskar Groening in 2015. Lebowitz was accompanied by three Holocaust survivors who planned to testify. For senior high and older readers. 2017The faithful spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the plot to kill Hitler
By John Hendrix. 2018
Recounts the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who started a church in Germany that opposed Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party.…
Describes Bonhoeffer's alliance with conspirators who sought to kill Hitler, his imprisonment, and his execution just weeks before Germany's surrender. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2018Spies: the secret showdown between America and Russia
By Marc Favreau. 2019
An account of the Cold War spies and their carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help…
avert global nuclear war. Includes a Cold War glossary and a glossary of key espionage techniques. For senior high and older readers. 2019Eyes of the world: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the invention of modern photojournalism
By Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos, Marc Aronson,Marina Budhos. 2017
Recounts the achievements of photojournalism pioneers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro as they captured the tragedies of the Spanish Civil…
War and documented the fight against fascism. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2017Out of wonder: poems celebrating poets
By Kwame Alexander, Marjory Wentworth, Chris Colderley, Ekua Holmes. 2017
A collection of twenty poems by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderly, and Marjory Wentworth, written in tribute to well-known poets from…
around the world. Pays homage to Langston Hughes, Sandra Cisneros, Maya Angelou, Rumi, and more. For grades 4-7. 2017Radioactive!: how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
By Winifred Conkling. 2016
Recounts the discovery of artificial radiation by Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie in 1934. Their groundbreaking advancement in physics led physicist…
Lise Meitner to unlock the secrets of fission. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2016We will not be silent: the White Rose student resistance movement that defied Adolf Hitler
By Russell Freedman. 2016
Recounts the true story of Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. Once members of the Hitler Youth, the siblings questioned…
Hitler's regime and became members of White Rose, a leaflet campaign of active resistance to the Nazis. Some violence. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2016Writing powerful persuasive pieces (Write This Way Ser.)
By Nancy Loewen. 2016
Guide to writing powerful persuasive articles to influence the way people think. For example, use rhetoric to persuade your parents…
to let you have a pet. Learn how to gather strong evidence, organize content, and use techniques to capture your audience's attention. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2016