Title, Creators, Comments / Reviews | Ages | Date Added | |||
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1. Jesse Owens: An American Life (Hardcover) Author: William J. Baker Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div |
N/A |
1/27/2013 Add | |||
Jerry said: After growing up in a small Alabama hamlet, Owens moved to Cleveland in junior high school where a coach discovered and nurtured his athletic talent. He went on to Ohio State University before competi...more tags: I read | |||||
6 Reviews | |||||
2. Sidetracked: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (5) (Paperback) Author: Henning Mankell Publisher: Vintage |
N/A |
1/27/2013 Add | |||
Jerry tagged as: I read | |||||
468 Reviews | |||||
3. Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most In... Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Publisher: Harper Perennial |
N/A |
1/27/2013 Add | |||
Jerry said: Zuckoff travels the world and drills deeply into the historical archives in this true account of the group of World War II soldiers who crash in a remote region of Dutch New Guinea. The author even tr...more tags: I read , Inspired me | |||||
3,747 Reviews | |||||
4. The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War against the Pirates of Nor... Author: Frederick C. Leiner Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA |
N/A |
1/27/2013 Add | |||
Jerry said: Leiner is an attorney who has a terrific sense of the complicated legal and military history of the early republic, especially after the second war for American independence. tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
19 Reviews | |||||
5. Speak (Paperback) Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher: Square Fish |
Young Adults |
1/27/2013 Add | |||
Jerry said: This is a fun take on the trials and tribulations of school age kids and how they view the world of high school. tags: I read | |||||
35,336 Reviews | |||||
6. Who Was Albert Einstein? (Paperback) Author: Jess Brallier Illustrator: Robert Andrew Parker Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap |
Ages 9-12 |
11/16/2012 Add | |||
Jerry said: Readers in grades 4 to 5 in particular have a harder time reading nonfiction. The vocabulary is difficult and they often don't understand much of the context of a story. Take biographies of American p...more tags: I read | |||||
555 Reviews | |||||
7. Esperanza Rising (Hardcover) Author: Pam Munoz Ryan Publisher: Perfection Learning Prebound |
N/A |
11/16/2012 Add | |||
Jerry said: An applicant recently shared this book with me as one of her and her mother's favorites. "We read it together!" she said. "I just love historical fiction." Well, with that statement, I just had to rea...more tags: I read | |||||
2,976 Reviews | |||||
8. Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Paperback) Author: Peg Kehret, Denise Shanahan Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company |
Young Adults |
11/11/2012 Add | |||
Jerry said: Peg Schulze Kehret's account of her fight against polio (1949-50), which struck her at age 12, vividly recalls her hospitalization and treatment even though she wrote the story over four decades later...more tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
643 Reviews | |||||
9. Beyond The Western Sea: Book One: The Escape From Home (Hardcover) Author: Avi Avi Publisher: Orchard Books (NY) |
Young Adults |
11/10/2012 Add | |||
Jerry said: I thought I would stop after the first volume, but it is a good story and just had to find out how the trans-Atlantic voyage would go and what would happen to these kids after arriving in Boston. The ...more tags: I read | |||||
88 Reviews | |||||
10. Lord Kirkle's Money (Beyond the Western Sea, Book 2) (Paperback) Author: Avi Publisher: HarperTrophy |
Young Adults |
11/10/2012 Add | |||
Jerry tagged as: I read | |||||
42 Reviews | |||||
11. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Paperback) Author: Avi Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks |
Young Adults |
11/10/2012 Add | |||
Jerry said: This is a classic! It is one of the guided reading assignments in 5th grade at The Oakridge School. tags: I read , Inspired me , I recommend | |||||
2,904 Reviews | |||||
12. The Secret School (Library Binding) Author: Avi |
Ages 9-12 |
11/10/2012 Add | |||
Jerry said: This was on the summer reading list for 4th graders at The Oakridge School. Avi is a great storyteller and weaves some historical fact into his fiction. For parents looking for good stories to keep th...more tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
586 Reviews | |||||
13. The Great Wide Sea (Paperback) Author: M.H. Herlong Publisher: Puffin |
Young Adults |
11/10/2012 Add | |||
Jerry said: Gripping account of a family who loses their mother in a tragic car accident, then the dad and his three sons sell the home, the sail boat, and set off for a year-long sail from the Florida Keys to th...more tags: I read | |||||
262 Reviews | |||||
14. Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States (Paperback) Author: Jane Taylor, Raphael Semmes Publisher: Louisiana State University Press |
N/A |
4/22/2012 Add | |||
Jerry tagged as: I'm reading | |||||
12 Reviews | |||||
15. Treason's Harbour (Vol. Book 9) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) (Paperback) Author: Patrick O'Brian Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company |
N/A |
4/22/2012 Add | |||
Jerry tagged as: I'm reading | |||||
241 Reviews | |||||
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