Lynne Barasch
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1952, April is seven years old and adores her big sister Annabel. But Annabel is failing her math class and desperately needs help with a tough math problem. April decides to write to Albert Einstein asking him to give a hand. While she waits for his reply, April imagines everything he might be doing instead of working on math. Could he be riding his bike? Or working in his garden? Maybe he's playing his violin. But finally, Einstein sends the...
2) Radio rescue
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In 1923, after learning Morse code and setting up his own amateur radio station, a twelve-year-old boy sends a message that leads to the rescue of a family stranded by a hurricane in Florida. Based on experiences of the author's father.
7) Old friends
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A very old woman misses all her friends who have died, especially her best friend Anna, until she meets a little dog in front of her apartment.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When two young Kenyan boys, one Maasai and one Kikuyu, first meet, they are hostile toward each other based on traditional rivalries, but after they suddenly have to work together to save a baby in danger, the boys begin to discover what they have in common.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1888, Owney, a stray terrier puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks and beyond, criss-crossing the United States, into Canada and Mexico, and eventually traveling aroud the world by mail boat in 132 days.