Karen Hesse
2) Stowaway
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
3) Witness
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
4) Night job
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When the sun sets, Dad’s job as a school custodian is just beginning. What is it like to work on a Friday night while the rest of the city is asleep? There’s the smell of lilacs in the night air, the dusky highway in the moonlight, and glimpses of shy nighttime animals to make the dark magical. Shooting baskets in the half-lit gym, sweeping the stage with the game on the radio, and reading out loud to his father in the library all help the boy’s...
5) My thumb
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kids find comfort in sucking their thumbs and pediatricians say to let them enjoy it while they?re little. This rhyming picture book is an ode to thumb sucking.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
8) Sable
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Tate Marshall is delighted when a stray dog turns up in the yard one day, but Sable, named for her dark, silky fur, causes trouble with the neighbors and has to go.