Karen Hesse
2) Witness
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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
After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world. At the age of four, Mila fell from a refugee craft and was lost in the ocean between Cuba and Florida. Until her rescue eight years later, she lived as a wild child of the sea. As Mila now learns to communicate and deal with the complexities of human feelings, she develops an understanding of a strange...
7) Stowaway
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
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.
8) Safekeeping
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Language
English
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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.
9) Night job
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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." --
10) Sable
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1994.
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.
11) My thumb
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
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) Phoenix rising
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.
15) Lavender
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Series
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
When Codie's favorite aunt is having a baby, Codie has lots of worries: Will the baby and her aunt be all right, will Codie's baby quilt be done on time, and will her aunt still have time for her?
16) Aleutian sparrow
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English
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Description
An Aleutian islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese.
17) Brooklyn Bridge
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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.
19) Granny and Bean
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A loving grandmother and her grandchild enjoy an adventure by the sea and stop to have tea."--
20) Spuds
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
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.
