Children's 1900s American Historical Fiction
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Lauren Tarshis [Tarshis, Lauren]

Wilkie led them back toward Market Street. Wilkie was sure Fletch had gone back to the abandoned house where they stashed their loot. “That way if the police got us,” ...
( Category: Military & Wars August 14,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2001-11-13 | Author:Christopher Paul Curtis [Curtis, Christopher Paul]

“Mommy says no Mommy says no, I listen, you don’t, Wha-ha-ha-ha. The building falls down, The building falls down, You get crushed, I don’t Wha-ha-ha-ha.” Boy. That was about the ...
( Category: Classics June 28,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David A. Adler

12 All I Think About Is Mom The next morning, Dad is standing by the window with a cup of coffee. He’s still wearing pajamas. “The appointment is this afternoon, ...
( Category: Military & Wars June 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Kristin Levine

30 THANKSGIVING THE NEXT DAY WAS THANKSGIVING, AND Mama woke us all before dawn. There was a lot to do if we were gonna eat at noon. Why we had ...
mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Vince Vawter

Mr. Spiro was smiling with his big arms folded across his chest. He looked at me for a while without saying anything and then stood. My bias against poetry has ...
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Gary D. Schmidt

And the raft floated away, the sounds of the singing faded, and the gulls swooped and screeched as if they were announcing a death in the town. One by one, ...
mobi |eng | 2009-03-23 | Author:Hahn, Mary Downing [Hahn, Mary Downing]

Elizabeth stumbled on "nipperkin" and giggled. "'Wet right many a nipperkin'? What does that mean?" "Drink a mug of beer," Stuart said, "a half-pint like in England." That made us ...
( Category: Military & Wars April 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Suzanne Weyn [Weyn, Suzanne]

Chapter 19 That night Blythe and I stayed up deep into the next morning, talking with Mimi, who curled up with a quilt in one of Agatha’s overstuffed armchairs. The ...
( Category: Romance March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Joyce McDonald [McDonald, Joyce]

The smell of bleach coming from the isolation room next to the one her grandmother was in made Devin gag. The nurses were disinfecting the room next door where a ...
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-05 | Author:Michael Ferrari [Ferrari, Michael]

Suddenly Kenji’s flare lit up the moonless sky, surprising the man in black. With all my might I instinctively bit down hard into the forearm he had wrapped around my ...
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Clare Vanderpool [Vanderpool, Clare]

The next minutes, or years—I’m not sure which—were a blur of icy water and logs, bumps and gashes, and short gasps of air. I tried to grab hold of a ...
epub |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Ellen Klages

April 12 UNDER THE FENCE DEWEY NOTICED THAT Suze put a big red X on the calendar in the kitchen every morning after breakfast. She thought at first that it ...
epub |eng | 2012-08-13 | Author:Shelley Pearsall [Pearsall, Shelley]

21. Blackout Jump If I wasn’t a believer in MawMaw Sands’s peculiar gifts before that day, I was after it. Because unless she read the official orders of the U.S. ...
( Category: Military & Wars March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Clare Vanderpool

Miss Sadie had given me directions. The prickly poppy had white petals with orange and red in the middle. She said to look for them along the railroad tracks. Skeleton ...
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Winthrop

18 THE GROUP PICTURE Mamère cuffs me on the head when she finds I didn't go blind. I barely feel it, but there is no reason to hit me. I ...