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Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
It’s August 1941, and Brick and Mariel both love the Brooklyn Dodgers. Brick listens to their games on the radio in Windy Hill, in upstate New York, where his family has an apple orchard; Mariel, once a polio patient in the hospital in Windy Hill, lives in Brooklyn near the Dodgers’ home, Ebbets Field. She was adopted by Loretta, a nurse at the hospital, and has never known what happened to her own mother. Someday, somehow, she plans to...
5) Willow Run
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During World War II, after moving with her parents to Willow Run, Michigan, when her father gets a job in the B-24 bomber-building factory, eleven-year-old Meggie learns about different kinds of bravery from all of the people around her.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
7) Gingersnap
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
8) Water Street
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the shadow of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, eighth-graders and new neighbors Bird Mallon and Thomas Neary make some decisions about what they want to do with their lives.
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