Blackwater Ben

Blackwater Ben

Author: William Durbin

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2008-12-18

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0307514595

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Thirteen-year-old Ben works at Blackwater Logging Camp as cook’s helper to his Pa. Long days of flipping pancakes and peeling potatoes with his ornery Pa make Ben long to be out in the woods with the lumberjacks. Felling logs, sawing trees, driving a team through the snowy woods . . . that’s what Ben wants to be doing. But the long cold winter in a camp filled with outlandish characters teaches Ben a lot about himself. Especially when an orphan boy called Nevers arrives in camp. When Nevers signs on to work with Pa, Ben makes a friend and a rival, too.


The Blackwater Lightship

The Blackwater Lightship

Author: Colm Toibin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1501106929

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From the author of The Master and Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín weaves together the lives of three generations of estranged women as they reunite to witness and mourn the death of a brother, a son, and a grandson. It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora, have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other.​ Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Tóibín explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. Hailed as "a genuine work of art" (Chicago Tribune), this is a novel about the capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds.


Bad Man

Bad Man

Author: Dathan Auerbach

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0525435263

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From Dathan Auerbach, the author of the horror sensation Penpal, a hauntingly dark novel about a young boy who goes missing, and the brother who won't stop looking for him. Eric disappeared when he was three years old. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. His brother was gone. Vanished into the sticky air of the Florida Panhandle. Five years later, Ben is still looking for his brother. Still searching, while his stepmother sits and waits and whispers for Eric, refusing to leave the house that Ben's father can no longer afford. Now twenty and desperate for work, Ben takes a job on the night stock crew at the only place that will have him: the store that blinked Eric out of existence. Ben can feel there's something wrong there. With the people. With his boss. With the graffitied baler that shudders and groans and beckons. But he's in the right place. He knows the store has much to show him, so he keeps searching. Except Ben misses the most important thing of all. That he should have stopped looking.


The President's Daughter

The President's Daughter

Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0440419956

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A fictionalized account of 10-year-old Ethel Roosevelt's early experiences in the White House after her father, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes president in 1901.


The King of Mulberry Street

The King of Mulberry Street

Author: Donna Jo Napoli

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2008-12-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307486753

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In 1892, nine-year-old Dom’s mother puts him on a ship leaving Italy, bound for America. He is a stowaway, traveling alone and with nothing of value except for a new pair of shoes from his mother. In the turbulent world of homeless children in Manhattan’s Five Points, Dom learns street smarts, and not only survives, but thrives by starting his own business. A vivid, fascinating story of an exceptional boy, based in part on the author’s grandfather.


Counting on Grace

Counting on Grace

Author: Elizabeth Winthrop

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2008-12-18

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0307518221

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1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future.


Man in the Moon

Man in the Moon

Author: Dotti Enderle

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0440422507

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When an old friend of the family arrives to make their sad home his own, the lives of Janine, her mother, and her sickly brother are changed when Mr. Lunas encourages her to use hidden courage to make vital changes in her family.


The Fire-Eaters

The Fire-Eaters

Author: David Almond

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2009-03-25

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307523748

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Bobby Burns knows he’s a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely Bay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: stars reflecting off the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured fawns with her dreams, a man who can eat fire. But darkness seems to be approaching Bobby’s life from all sides. Bobby’s new school is a cold, cruel place. His father is suffering from a mysterious illness that threatens to tear his family apart. And the USA and USSR are testing nuclear missiles and creeping closer and closer to a world-engulfing war. Together with his wonder-working friend, Ailsa Spink, and the fire-eating illusionist McNulty, Bobby will learn to believe in miracles that will save the people and place he loves.


Chig And The Second Spread

Chig And The Second Spread

Author: Gwenyth Swain

Publisher: Yearling Books

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0440419204

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Despite her small stature, eight-year-old Chig makes large contributions to her southern Indiana community during the Great Depression.


Swift Rivers

Swift Rivers

Author: Cornelia Meigs

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0802777031

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In 1835, after being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.