Karen Hesse
5) Safekeeping
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
These critically acclaimed, bestselling Newbery Winner and Honor books that highlight inner strength and perseverance are now available in this convenient eBook collection!The young protagonists in each of these stories are confronted by varying conflicts, which can only be overcome by their inner will and tenacity. These are stories of family, friendship, and hope.In RULES, all Catherine wants is a "normal" life, and having a brother with...
8) Sable
Author
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.
9) Night job
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Description
169 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
12) My thumb
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
13) Granny and Bean
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A loving grandmother and her grandchild enjoy an adventure by the sea and stop to have tea.
14) Stowaway
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
319 pages : color map ; 24 cm
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.
15) Witness
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Description
161 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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.
18) Spuds
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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.
19) Just Juice
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Description
iv, 138 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
