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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the 1930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie,...
Author
Publisher
Yucca Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of 'the other' has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa ... Based on the true story of the author's father, this heart-wrenching clash of love and loyalties is a picture of an America...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tarpaper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
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