Linda Harris Sittig

I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 (I Survived #18)

By Lauren Tarshis - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This book is a part of the I Survived series written for upper elementary students. Each book transports the reader to a significant ...Read Review

The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature

By Pierre-Jacques Ober - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is a story of WWI for ages 8-12. It concerns Pierre, a French soldier who leaves his post for two days and ...Read Review

Apache Lament

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2019

Genres:

Western

This western novel is based upon the actual events of January 1881, when a small contingent of Texas Rangers tracked the last free group ...Read Review

The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA

By Brenda Woods - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This middle-grade novel introduces us to a town where everyone seems to get along, while racial inequality bubbles beneath the surface. The setting ...Read Review

I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived #17)

By Lauren Tarshis - Published 2018

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

This book is a part of the very popular series, I Survived, written for upper elementary students. Each book transports the reader to ...Read Review

The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding

By Jennifer Robson - Published 2018

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This novel spins the unusual story of how Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown was embroidered by a group of English workers in 1947. The ...Read Review

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton

By Don Tate - Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award and others, Poet is the story of an enslaved man, George Moses Horton, who labored on ...Read Review

A Light of Her Own

By Carrie Callaghan - Published 2018

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Although we associate Holland as the land of master painters Rembrandt and Vermeer, few people realize that women of that day were discouraged ...Read Review

Skylark and Wallcreeper

By Anne O Carelli - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

When Lily’s grandmother, Collette, has to be evacuated from her nursing home in Queens due to superstorm Sandy, Collette demands that Lily ...Read Review

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

By Jonathan Auxier - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

Set during the Victorian age in London, when the vast majority of chimney sweeps were children, Nan Sparrow pulls the reader along in ...Read Review