A Parents’ Choice Silver Honor BookWith her father on the frontlines of World War II, a young girl gains strength by joining her community’s battle against the 1944 polio epidemicAnn Fay Honeycutt accepts the role of “man of...
Nineteenth-century Hawai’i. Thirteen-year-old Pia’s life is forever changed by leprosy. Pia has never known his real father. But Kamaka, a family friend, has taught him how to work, explore, and take on physical challenges. Pia believes Kamaka is...
In the wake of World War II, Ann Fay Honeycut grapples with her father’s trauma and the physical and emotional effects of polio -- finding healing in the unlikeliest of places Now that Daddy has returned from fighting Hitler and Ann Fay is ...
World War II looms over the U.S. while fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe struggles with anger and identity after his father's death -- “a must-have for historical fiction collections” (School Library Journal)As World War II threatens the...
Twin sisters find themselves growing apart as they respond differently to their father’s postwar trauma, the NASCAR speedway in their town, and their new high schoolWith home life destabilized by her father’s post-World War II trauma, Ellie ...
As social change sweeps across 1950s America, two boys -- one white, one Black -- discover the power of friendship and the importance of staying true to yourself It’s the summer of 1959 at the foot of Bakers Mountain in western North Carolina when ...