FICTION
FC S6-205 Are You There, My Lad?
FC S11-188 What the Spirit of Sunshine Means
FC S11-188 What the Spirit of Sunshine Means
JC 5-311 The Fair from Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Garnet's wonderful summer began when she found the thimble in the dried-up creek bed. Her brother, Jay, her friend, Citronella, and even Eric--the stranger who had no family--all found the hot Wisconsin summer one to remember.
Garnet's wonderful summer began when she found the thimble in the dried-up creek bed. Her brother, Jay, her friend, Citronella, and even Eric--the stranger who had no family--all found the hot Wisconsin summer one to remember.
♦ $ Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
"The charming adventures of the Mama of an immigrant Norwegian family living in San Francisco."
♦ $ Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
"Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York City, she suddenly gets all the freedom she wants! Lucinda zips around New York on her roller skates, meeting tons of new friends and having new adventures every day. But Lucinda has no idea what new experiences the city will show her.... Some of which will change her life forever." 1937 Newbery Award
♦ $ Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
"A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman. for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways.".
"The charming adventures of the Mama of an immigrant Norwegian family living in San Francisco."
♦ $ Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
"Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York City, she suddenly gets all the freedom she wants! Lucinda zips around New York on her roller skates, meeting tons of new friends and having new adventures every day. But Lucinda has no idea what new experiences the city will show her.... Some of which will change her life forever." 1937 Newbery Award
♦ $ Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
"A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman. for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways.".
CULTURAL
♦ $ Underground by David Macaulay
David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.
David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.
HISTORY
FC W11-548 Our World Today
♦ $ Landmark Americans into Orbit by Gene Gurney
♦ $ Landmark The Early Days of Automobiles by Elizabeth Janeway
$ Landmark The Story of San Francisco by Charlotte Jackson
♦ $ Landmark The Wright Brothers by Quentin Reynolds
♦ $ Landmark The Conquest of the North and South Poles by Russell Owen
♦ $ Landmark The Story of Atomic Energy by Laura Fermi
$ Landmark The Story of Oklahoma by Lon Tinkle
♦ $ Landmark The Story of the Secret Service by Ferdinand Kuhn
♦ $ Landmark The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever by Ralph Hill
$ Landmark The United Nations in War and Peace by T. Fehrenback
$ Landmark Walk in Space: The Story of Project Gemini by Gene Gurney
♦ Americans in Space by John Dille
American Heritage Junior Library
$ Little Britches Series by Ralph Moody
There are 8 volumes in this series of life in Littleton, Colorado in the early 1900s. I've linked to the audio version just so you can see all 8 titles. Definitely start with
$ Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers.
♦ $ The Mayo Brothers by Helen Clapesattle
North Star Books The Doctors Mayo is the biography of the "old doctor" William Worrall Mayo, his sons "Dr Will" and "Dr Charlie," and the world-famous Mayo Clinic which they built at Rochester Minnesota.
♦ $ The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
♦ Young People's Story of the Modern World by V.M. Hillyer
♦ $ Young Thomas Edison by Sterling North
North Star Books. Unable to hear, Thomas Edison seemed unlikely to become one of America?s greatest inventors, but as a hardworking young man, he wasn't about to let a minor obstacle stop him. He invented the phonograph, the incandescent lightbulb, and motion pictures, to name but three of his many important inventions. Eventually he was named the greatest living American.
♦ $ Landmark The Early Days of Automobiles by Elizabeth Janeway
$ Landmark The Story of San Francisco by Charlotte Jackson
♦ $ Landmark The Wright Brothers by Quentin Reynolds
♦ $ Landmark The Conquest of the North and South Poles by Russell Owen
♦ $ Landmark The Story of Atomic Energy by Laura Fermi
$ Landmark The Story of Oklahoma by Lon Tinkle
♦ $ Landmark The Story of the Secret Service by Ferdinand Kuhn
♦ $ Landmark The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever by Ralph Hill
$ Landmark The United Nations in War and Peace by T. Fehrenback
$ Landmark Walk in Space: The Story of Project Gemini by Gene Gurney
♦ Americans in Space by John Dille
American Heritage Junior Library
$ Little Britches Series by Ralph Moody
There are 8 volumes in this series of life in Littleton, Colorado in the early 1900s. I've linked to the audio version just so you can see all 8 titles. Definitely start with
$ Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers.
♦ $ The Mayo Brothers by Helen Clapesattle
North Star Books The Doctors Mayo is the biography of the "old doctor" William Worrall Mayo, his sons "Dr Will" and "Dr Charlie," and the world-famous Mayo Clinic which they built at Rochester Minnesota.
♦ $ The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
♦ Young People's Story of the Modern World by V.M. Hillyer
♦ $ Young Thomas Edison by Sterling North
North Star Books. Unable to hear, Thomas Edison seemed unlikely to become one of America?s greatest inventors, but as a hardworking young man, he wasn't about to let a minor obstacle stop him. He invented the phonograph, the incandescent lightbulb, and motion pictures, to name but three of his many important inventions. Eventually he was named the greatest living American.
HISTORICAL FICTION
♦ $ Blue Willow by Doris Gates
"To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm. Someday, Janey promised the willow plate, with its picture of a real house, her family would once again be able to set down roots in a community."
♦ $ A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
Growing up in California during the depression isn't easy for eleven-year-old Rinko. She desperately wants to fit in and be like everyone else, but instead she is ridiculed and made to feel different because she is Japanese. But when Aunt Waka comes to visit, and brings with her the old-fashioned wisdom of Japan, she teaches Rinko the importance of her Japanese heritage, and the value of her own strengths and dreams, in this warm and touching story.
♦ Light a Little Lamp by Elsie Reif Ziegler
Daughters of Valor Series. The story of humanitarian and educator Mary McDowell.
♦ $ The Kid from Tomkinsville by John Tunis
A nostalgic classic for baseball lovers.
"To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm. Someday, Janey promised the willow plate, with its picture of a real house, her family would once again be able to set down roots in a community."
♦ $ A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
Growing up in California during the depression isn't easy for eleven-year-old Rinko. She desperately wants to fit in and be like everyone else, but instead she is ridiculed and made to feel different because she is Japanese. But when Aunt Waka comes to visit, and brings with her the old-fashioned wisdom of Japan, she teaches Rinko the importance of her Japanese heritage, and the value of her own strengths and dreams, in this warm and touching story.
♦ Light a Little Lamp by Elsie Reif Ziegler
Daughters of Valor Series. The story of humanitarian and educator Mary McDowell.
♦ $ The Kid from Tomkinsville by John Tunis
A nostalgic classic for baseball lovers.
BIOGRAPHIES
FC F12-333 Frances E. Willard
FC F12-359 Jane Addams
FC G4-295 Peter Rowe
FC F12-359 Jane Addams
FC G4-295 Peter Rowe
JC 8-15 Out of Darkness from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Helen Keller, whose sight and hearing were destroyed by illness before she was two years old, was left deaf, dumb, and blind. With the help of her teacher and companion, Anne Sullivan, she learned to 'see' and to 'read' with her hands.
Helen Keller, whose sight and hearing were destroyed by illness before she was two years old, was left deaf, dumb, and blind. With the help of her teacher and companion, Anne Sullivan, she learned to 'see' and to 'read' with her hands.
♦ $ Andrew Carnegie by Clara Ingram Judson
♦ $ Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World by Doris Faber
A biography emphasizing the early years of Eleanor Roosevelt, who had enormous political influence and won love and respect as America's first lady.
♦ Enrico Fermi by Doris Faber
Atomic pioneer.
♦ Entertaining the World: P.T. Barnum by Fred J. Cook
Great Lives Series
♦ Harry Truman by Doris Faber
♦ Henry Ford by Regina Kelly
♦ $ Jane Addams of Hull House by Winifred Wise
♦ $ Landmark Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel by Katherine Shippen
♦ $ Landmark Dwight D. Eisenhower by Malcom Moos
♦ $ Landmark The Story of Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins
♦ $ Landmark Women of Courage by Dorothy Nathan
♦ Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright by Doris Ransohoff
Great Lives Series
♦ Making Music: Leonard Bernstein by Shirley Bernstein
Great Lives Series
♦ Making Poems for America: Robert Frost by Gorham Munson
Great Lives Series
♦ Master of Ballyhoo: P.T. Barnum by Felix Sutton
♦ $ Petticoat Politics: How American Women Won the Right to Vote by Doris Faber
♦ Putting Electrons to Work: David Sarnoff by John Tebbel
Great Lives Series
♦ Rallying a Free People: Theodore Roosevelt by Fred J. Cook
Great Lives Series
♦ $ Ronald Reagan by Kieran Doherty
♦ Shaping a New World: Margaret Mead by Allyn Moss
Great Lives Series
♦ $ Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Arthur Beckhard
Signature Biography
♦ Striving to be Champion: Babe Didrikson Zaharias by Helen Markley Miller
Great Lives Series
$ That Touch of Magic by Lorena Hickok
Good and Beautiful Book. "Helen Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life, is not only fascinating and inspiring, but it also includes wonderful description, an elevated vocabulary, and deep insights into life. Accompanying this autobiography is a beautifully written biography, The Touch of Magic, about Helen Keller’s teacher, Annie Sullivan. As a destitute, misbehaving orphan who is going blind, Annie experiences and overcomes the extreme trials in her life, which prepare her for the great work she does with Helen Keller."
♥ The Boys Life of Edison by William Meadowcroft
♦ $ The Helen Keller Story by Catherine Owens Peare
Inspiring story of girl who could not see or hear.
♦ The True Story of Albert Einstein: Man of Science by Ruth L. Oldfield
The True Story of Series
♦ The Woodrow Wilson Story: An Idealist in Politics by Catherine Owens Peare
♦ Walt Disney, Master of Make-Believe by Elizabeth Montgomery
Garrard
♦ $ Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World by Doris Faber
A biography emphasizing the early years of Eleanor Roosevelt, who had enormous political influence and won love and respect as America's first lady.
♦ Enrico Fermi by Doris Faber
Atomic pioneer.
♦ Entertaining the World: P.T. Barnum by Fred J. Cook
Great Lives Series
♦ Harry Truman by Doris Faber
♦ Henry Ford by Regina Kelly
♦ $ Jane Addams of Hull House by Winifred Wise
♦ $ Landmark Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel by Katherine Shippen
♦ $ Landmark Dwight D. Eisenhower by Malcom Moos
♦ $ Landmark The Story of Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins
♦ $ Landmark Women of Courage by Dorothy Nathan
♦ Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright by Doris Ransohoff
Great Lives Series
♦ Making Music: Leonard Bernstein by Shirley Bernstein
Great Lives Series
♦ Making Poems for America: Robert Frost by Gorham Munson
Great Lives Series
♦ Master of Ballyhoo: P.T. Barnum by Felix Sutton
♦ $ Petticoat Politics: How American Women Won the Right to Vote by Doris Faber
♦ Putting Electrons to Work: David Sarnoff by John Tebbel
Great Lives Series
♦ Rallying a Free People: Theodore Roosevelt by Fred J. Cook
Great Lives Series
♦ $ Ronald Reagan by Kieran Doherty
♦ Shaping a New World: Margaret Mead by Allyn Moss
Great Lives Series
♦ $ Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Arthur Beckhard
Signature Biography
♦ Striving to be Champion: Babe Didrikson Zaharias by Helen Markley Miller
Great Lives Series
$ That Touch of Magic by Lorena Hickok
Good and Beautiful Book. "Helen Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life, is not only fascinating and inspiring, but it also includes wonderful description, an elevated vocabulary, and deep insights into life. Accompanying this autobiography is a beautifully written biography, The Touch of Magic, about Helen Keller’s teacher, Annie Sullivan. As a destitute, misbehaving orphan who is going blind, Annie experiences and overcomes the extreme trials in her life, which prepare her for the great work she does with Helen Keller."
♥ The Boys Life of Edison by William Meadowcroft
♦ $ The Helen Keller Story by Catherine Owens Peare
Inspiring story of girl who could not see or hear.
♦ The True Story of Albert Einstein: Man of Science by Ruth L. Oldfield
The True Story of Series
♦ The Woodrow Wilson Story: An Idealist in Politics by Catherine Owens Peare
♦ Walt Disney, Master of Make-Believe by Elizabeth Montgomery
Garrard