Lists and Suggestions for Kids
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The outcasts
Flanagan, John.
Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ...
Elephant run
Smith, Roland.
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is i...
Donuthead
Stauffacher, Sue.
Franklin Delano Donuthead, a fifth-grader obsessed with hygiene and safety, finds an unlikely frien...
White bird : a wonder story
Palacio, R. J.
Also available in Overdrive. Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a ...
Aliens from Earth : when animals and plants invade other ecosystems
Batten, Mary.
Explores how and why plants and animals enter ecosystems to which they are not native, as well as t...
England
Blashfield, Jean F.
Discusses England's long and fascinating history (from its earliest settlement thousands of ye...
You wouldn't want to be in the Forbidden City! : a sheltered life you'd rather avoid
Morley, Jacqueline.
Humorous description of life for the inhabitants of Beijing's Forbidden City, formerly home of...
Fight for freedom : the American Revolutionary War
Bobrick, Benson.
Renowned historian Benson Bobrick has written a moving chronicle of the American Revolution for y...
Okay for now
Schmidt, Gary D.
"He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepit...
Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement
Bausum, Ann.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John...