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1. Jesse Owens: An American Life (Hardcover)
    Author: William J. Baker
    Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div
N/A 1/27/2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jerry tagged as: I'm reading
241 Reviews  
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