Donna Jo Napoli
1) Pink magic
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Nick wishes for some pink mail addressed just to him, and his sister helps make it happen.
3) Albert
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
One day when Albert is at his window, two cardinals come to build a nest in his hand, an event that changes his life.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"When a young Japanese girl moves into her new house, she is happy to see a girl her age playing in the snow just outside her window. The only problem is the Japanese girl doesn't speak English and the American girl doesn't speak Japanese. But each girl's love of the snow teaches them that they don't need to speak the same language to have fun!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the autumn of 1846 in Ireland, twelve-year-old Lorraine and her family struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine. When Lorraine meets Miss Susannah, the daugher of the wealthy English landowner who owns Lorraine's family's farm, they form an unlikely friendship that they must keep secret due to the deep cultural divide between their two families.
11) Three days
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When her father suddenly dies while on a business trip leaving her alone on an Italian highway, eleven-year-old Jackie worries what will happen when she is picked up by two men with unknown motives.
12) The crossing
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1805, Sacagawea, a woman of the Shoshoni tribe, helps Meriwether Lewis and William Clark find a passage to the West Coast, in this story told through the eyes of the baby boy on Sacagawea's back.
15) Stones in water
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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Description
After being taken from a local movie theater--along with other Italian boys, including his Jewish friend--by German soldiers, Roberto is forced to work for the German war effort until he escapes into the Ukrainian winter, desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
16) Hunger
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It is the autumn of 1846 in Ireland. Lorraine and her brother are waiting for the time to pick the potato crop on their family farm leased from an English landowner. But this year is different, the spuds are mushy and ruined. What will Lorraine and her family do?
17) North
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
18) Fish Girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Fish Girl, a young mermaid living in a boardwalk aquarium, has never interacted with anyone beyond the walls of her tank until a chance encounter with an ordinary girl, Livia. Their growing friendship inspires Fish Girl's longing for freedom, independence, and a life beyond the aquarium tank"--