Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Historical - United States - 20th Century

It is 1942, and Manny Keefer, cut from his sophomore basketball team, decides to volunteer to be team manager to keep up with his friends Wally and Felix, who are still on the team. As World War II changes the entire world around him, his own life is changing just as drastically.

When the sports editor of the Daily News announces that he'll be printing news and scores from all local high schools, Manny sees an opportunity to turn his friends into stars. But when the editor says their private school isn't big enough for any stories, Manny and his friends create a fictitious...

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It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt and -uncle listen to him on the radio every Saturday night, and Tate just knows that she and Hank are kindred spirits.

Told entirely through Tate's hopeful letters, "Dear Hank Williams" is a beautifully drawn novel from National Book Award winning author Kimberly Willis Holt that gradually unfolds...

Sitting on a bench waiting for his mother, Alex spies a mule chomping on greens in someone's garden, and he can't help but ask about it.""Ol Belle?" says Miz Pettway next to him. "She can have all the collards she wants. She's earned it." And so begins the tale of a simple mule in Gee's Bend, Alabama, who played a singular part in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. When African-Americans in a poor community-- inspired by a visit from Dr....

Born in Shaniko, Oregon, in 1915, Walter "Pink" Butler hasn't lived an easy life. He's endured the loss of his brother to diphtheria, an arson attack on his grandmother's homestead, and the death of his favorite horse Choppy. But none of these events frighten Pink as much as his father.

Oscar Butler is a volatile, often violent man who never truly embraced fatherhood but keeps a possessive eye on Pink. When Pink's mother dies, she begs her mother Mary to raise Pink, a task Mary promises to undertake. Oscar has other ideas.

Kidnapped, wrapped in a blanket, and driven across country,...

"Aunt Ida would boil him in the laundry cauldron if she knew where he was." On the long wagon ride to the old homestead, she warned them about the Gypsies they d encountered, and now here he was, ducking into a colorful caravan with Samson, a Gypsy boy he had met . . . underwater. And it was the best thing to happen since they d moved from Stillwater to this lonely, hard place to try to reclaim the decrepit family farm.

Missing his friends and life as it was before his brother s accident and his mother s silent grief, fourteen-year-old Martin Gunnarsson is trying to hold his family...

Mandy and Jolee may live with their father Dale-but they can only rely on each other and Mrs. Mattern, the widow who lives next door. Dale is an erratic, sometimes violent drunk. The girls' mother is dead, and a distant grandmother is their only other relation.

Hidden in Mrs. Mattern's possession is a gold box belonging to the girls' mother, a box containing a secret that only Mrs. Mattern and the Reverend Johnson know but one which deeply concerns the two sisters.

When an act of violence drives Mandy and Jolee out of their home, they suddenly find themselves in possession of the box...