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Author: Dave Pelzer
ISBN: 0452281903
Recommended Retail Price: $13.00
The inspiring conclusion to A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy
"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself."--Dave Pelzer, from A Man Named Dave
These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence ...
Author: Jay Kopelman, Melinda Roth
ISBN: 1599211823
Recommended Retail Price: $14.95
A war memoir that will capture the hearts of its readers, just as one scruffy puppy sneaked his way into the hearts of hardened Marines just when they needed it most.
Author: Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 0811216020
Recommended Retail Price: $9.95
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In."
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impa...
Author: Cynthia Rylant
ISBN: 0152021027
Recommended Retail Price: $7.00
How does an old woman who has outlived all her friends keep from being lonely? By naming the things in her life she knows she will never outlive--like her house, Franklin, and her bed, Roxanne. When a shy brown puppy appears at her front gate, the old woman won’t name it, because it might not outlive her. Tender waterc...
Author: Haven Kimmel
ISBN: 0767915054
Recommended Retail Price: $13.95
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when sm...
Author: Erin Dionne
ISBN: 0803732988
Recommended Retail Price: $16.99
Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia and generally go about in public as if it were the sixteenth century, that’s not terribly easy. It gets worse when they decide that Hamlet’s genius sevenyear- old sister wi...
Author: Vic Reskovic
ISBN: 0980023505
Recommended Retail Price: $14.95
A Cat Named Squeeky is a true story of a stray cat. Where did she come from? No one knew. Did anyone in the neighborhood want to keep her? Not really. Not even the two people who offered food, temporary shelter, and a name. The name worked and the cat stayed. For 19 years. Creative, humorous, informative, and e...
Author: Frances Dinkelspiel
ISBN: 0312355270
Recommended Retail Price: $16.99
Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances Dinkelspiel's groundbreakin...
Author: Joan M. Wolf
ISBN: 0547237669
Recommended Retail Price: $6.99
A gripping tale of one girl’s struggle against the Nazis.
“Remember who you are, Milada.” Milada’s grandmother says these words on the night the Nazi soldiers come to their home in Czechoslovakia. But what do they mean? She is Milada, who lives with her mama and papa, her brother and sister, and her belo...
The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths
Author: Charlotte Gordon
ISBN: 031611474X
Recommended Retail Price: $27.99
The saga of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar is the tale of origin for all three monotheistic faiths. Abraham must choose between two wives who have borne him two sons. One wife and son will share in his wealth and status, while the other two are exiled into the desert. Long a cornerstone of Western anxiety, the story chronic...
“Remember who you are, Milada.” Milada’s grandmother says these words on the night the Nazi soldiers come to their home in Czechoslovakia. But what do they mean? She is Milada, who lives with her mama and papa, her brother and sister, and her belo...
Author: Charlotte Gordon
ISBN: 031611474X
Recommended Retail Price: $27.99
The saga of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar is the tale of origin for all three monotheistic faiths. Abraham must choose between two wives who have borne him two sons. One wife and son will share in his wealth and status, while the other two are exiled into the desert. Long a cornerstone of Western anxiety, the story chronic...