 | Music on the Bamboo Radio
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 |  | Pagan's Scribe
Publication Date: January 2000Pagan's final adventure finds our sarcastic hero a bit older and wiser as he leads his young scribe out of the world of books to brave the real-life dangers of a papal crusade.Impressed by the bookish Isidore, Pagan Kidrouk — now Archdeacon of Carcassonne — hires the boy as his scribe. Eager to flee a cloistered existence, naive Isidore quickly discovers that the real world isn't as the poets and philosophers claim. The year is 1209, and papal forces from the north are driving their bloody crusade against the Cathar heretics to Carcassonne. With th...
|  | Men Who Fought in the Civil War (Civil War (Management Concepts))
Publication Date: January 26, 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Molly Learns A Lesson (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (American Girls Collection: Molly 1944)
Publication Date: August 1, 1986| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | My Brother's Keeper: A Civil War Story
Publication Date: January 1, 1991| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Set against the background of the Civil War, My Brothers' Keeper takes young Joshua Parish from the farmlands of New York State to the battlefields of Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Appomattox. He ends up with the Twentieth Maine infantry, where he develops his skills as a medic. ...
|  | No preguntes por Mozart/ The Mozart Question (Castillo De La Lectura: Serie Naranja/ Reading Castle: Orange Series) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | My Dear Phebe
Publication Date: October 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up These are trying times. In the last few weeks, our children have watched the acts of terrorists. To children, especially, they are truly terrifying. One fifth-grader said, ?I watched them run an airplane into so many buildings.? Yes, to the children it did not appear to be one single act of violence, but by watching it time after time, they truly believed that it was happening over and over again.How do we explain this to our children? Experts have filled the television airwaves with suggestions. Counselors have made...
|  | A New Coat for Anna
Publication Date: May 1, 1988| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A fresh and moving story of a mother's dedication to acquire a coat for her daughter in post-World War II hard times. Anna's mother decides to trade the few valuables she has left for wool and for the services of a spinner, a weaver, and a tailor. Lobel's pictures do a tremendous job of evoking the period. Insightful and informative, this may make children consider how precious the ordinary can become in times of turmoil ...
|  | Murdo's War
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|  | Neversink
Release Date: September 11, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, whose jagged cliffs and ice-gouged rocks are home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have few concerns—few, save for Lockley’s two best friends, Egbert and Ruby, a know-it-all walrus and a sharp-tongued hummingbird.But all of this is about to change. Rozbell, the newly crowned king of the Owl Parliament, is dealing with a famine o...
|  | Once Upon a Castle
Publication Date: July 24, 2012Uncle Toby had said that there would be castles to explore, with ghosts and things. This helps to cheer up the glum twelve-year old Lovell twins, Tom and Mary, leaving their schools and loving parents to be evacuated to wild Northumbria during World War II. Then the adventure begins. They live with their Aunt Victoria and Uncle Leslie, meet the loveable ‘Mrs M’, a strange dog called ‘Scamp’ and, worst, the terrible private tutor, Miss Urquart, from whom they run away to find a mysterious castle seen through an old telescope. Now they...
|  | Mimi's Sunrise Surprise
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|  | A luz de un sue
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|  | Mission Sabotage (Cover-to-Cover Books)
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|  | Planes, Flames and Growing Pains
Release Date: July 6, 2006The Masters family opens their home to Brian, a refugee from London during the early months of World War II. Janet, closest in age, dislikes changes, and does not welcome this stranger in their home.Brian, still coming to terms with the death of his mother and his father missing in action, begins to settle in his new home. He and Gwen, younger sister of Janet, enjoy spending time together, but Janet continues to be evasive and elusive. Brian sets out to break the hard shell surrounding her.When a day light air raid occurs during school, Brian is traumatized and ...
| | Pagan in Exile
Publication Date: January 2000"The setting is medieval, but the issues addressed have twenty-first century parallels. . . . Jinks's writing is the tour de force of young adult prose." —VOICE OF YOUTH ADVOCATESThe year is 1188, and Jerusalem is in the hands of the Infidel. Upstanding Crusaders and their squires — like Lord Roland Roucy de Bram and Pagan Kidrouk — are returning to Europe, hoping to rally more knights to their cause. The sardonic young Pagan expects Lord Roland's family to be the picture of fortitude and good manners, but he's in for a rude awakening...
|  | Please Help, Miss Nightingale! (Coming Alive Series)
Publication Date: November 1997| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | No Peace for Amelia
Publication Date: October 1, 1994It's 1916 but Amelia Pim's thoughts are on Frederick Goodbody and not on the war in Europe. Then Frederick enlists. The pacifist Quaker community is shocked but Amelia is secretly proud of her hero and goes to the quayside to wave him farewell. For her friend MaryAnn, there are problems too, with her brother's involvement in the Easter Rising. What will become of the two young men and what effect will it have on the lives of Amelia and MaryAnn? A story of conflict, hope and courage. Sequel to the No. 1 Bestseller AMELIA. ...
|  | A Penny for a Hundred
Publication Date: July 2001| Age Level: 7 and up In 1944 a 9 year old befriends a German prisoner of war during the fall harvest. ...
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