Ronald Kidd
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping that the arrival of Freedom Riders in her town will help her community shed its antiquated views, thirteen-year-old Billie is forced to confront her own mindset when things turn tragic.
"Personally I don't mind them coming here but they might bother some of my customers. Thirteen-year old Billie Sims has heard things like this all her life, from the grocer down the road, from her neighbors at church, from her parents. But Billie never understood...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Nate Owens, thirteen, sets out from Bristol, Tennessee, against the wishes of his father, a self-proclaimed preacher, to find himself and the song he thinks will heal his broken family.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Angry at the changes in his life after his father leaves, including moving with his mother to a creepy old house in downtown Baltimore, eighth-grader David Cray unknowingly awakens Edgar Allen Poe's spirit, who feeds on David's rage to re-enact dreadful details of the nineteenth-century author's most famous stories.
4) Dreambender
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in the City has a specific job. Callie is a computer and works with numbers. Jeremy is a dreambender, who must remove thoughts of music and art from peoples dreams to keep them focused on their tasks in life. But Jeremy cant bring himself to remove Callies dreams of singing and must decide whether to follow orders or defy his community and let Callie follow her dreams"--www.bibz.com
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Maggie Murphy's grandfather visits he brings many mysteries, including an invention that may help eight-year-old Maggie, who loves being a spy, to solve a neighborhood crime--who is stealing the tuna fish from outside Mr. Kling's shop?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Memphis in the 1950's, fifteen-year-old Johnny is introduced to the blues when he ventures to the infamous Beale Street and establishes a friendship with the up-and-coming young musician Elvis Presley.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.
