Calkins Creek

Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems

By Barbara Krasner - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

The political morass of the Rosenberg story—the arrest and trial of Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and her husband, Julius, on charges of treason ...Read Review

Equal (Bakers Mountain Stories)

By Joyce Moyer Hostetter - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In summer 1959, at the foot of Baker’s Mountain, North Carolina, Jackie Honeycutt’s biggest concern is winning a blue ribbon at the ...Read Review

View from Pagoda Hill

By Michaela MacColl - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Shanghai, 1870. When the matchmaker declares 12-year-old Ning unmarriageable (she’s too tall, has “unnatural” green eyes and unbound feet), Ning’s mother writes ...Read Review

Moonshine

By Justin Benton - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

It’s 1932 and the Depression is going strong in rural Tennessee, along with Prohibition.  Distilling illegal liquor is the only way to survive ...Read Review

Healing Water

By Joyce Moyer Hostetter - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

  Imagine being fourteen and diagnosed with a deadly disease. Now imagine being torn away from the loving arms of your family and ...Read Review

Blue

By Joyce Moyer Hostetter - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

  There are two main themes in this book. The first concerns the polio epidemic in North Carolina in 1944 and the emergency hospital ...Read Review

Booth’s Daughter

By Raymond Wemmlinger - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

This book is about family relationships, posing the question about just how much responsibility and sacrifice can reasonably be expected from any one ...Read Review