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Ages 12 & up • <strong>Young</strong> Adult Reads<br />
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174<br />
Jean Fritz<br />
BRADY<br />
“After Brady discovered a station (of the<br />
Underground Railroad) near his family’s<br />
farm and knew that his father did not<br />
trust him with that secret, he wished he<br />
had never heard of slavery because it had<br />
got him into such trouble. But in a time<br />
of great need he was able to prove that<br />
he was becoming a man.”<br />
—The Horn Book<br />
Rec: BKL, BL, H<br />
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 224 pp. 1987<br />
978-0-698-11937-6 $6.99<br />
BULLY FOR YOU,<br />
TEDDY ROOSEVELT!<br />
Illustrated by Mike Wimmer<br />
“Like her fast and furious subject, Fritz’s<br />
style is full of action and drive, with vivid<br />
pictures of him...as always, her notes are<br />
filled with entertaining anecdotes and research....This<br />
lively, sympathetic portrait<br />
will interest young people in the man,<br />
and it will stimulate them to read more<br />
about the history.” —BooklistH<br />
Rec: AN, BLH, HH KH, NC, NYT, PW, SLJH, TE, V, W<br />
6 x 9 128 pp. 1997<br />
978-0-698-11609-2 $5.99<br />
THE CABIN FACED WEST<br />
Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky<br />
From the 1986 recipient of the Laura<br />
Ingalls Wilder Award for “substantial<br />
and lasting contribution to children’s<br />
literature,” “A satisfying story which conveys<br />
some of the loneliness, despair, and<br />
hardship of pioneer life’’ —Booklist<br />
Rec: BKL, BL, C, CS, E, H, K, NYT, PW, SLJ, W<br />
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 124 pp. 1987<br />
978-0-698-11936-9 $5.99<br />
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF<br />
POCAHONTAS<br />
Illustrated by Ed <strong>Young</strong><br />
In an innovative look at one of American<br />
history’s legendary heroines, Jean Fritz<br />
reveals the true story of Pocahontas, a<br />
woman trapped between two cultures.<br />
“This book dispels myths and describes<br />
with immediacy the life of the girl whose<br />
active conscience made her a pawn, exploited<br />
by her own people and the white<br />
world.” —Publishers Weekly<br />
Rec: AN, BL, C, CS, E, IRATC, KH, NC, NYT, PW, R, SLJH, TE<br />
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 86 pp. 1987<br />
978-0-698-11935-2 $5.99<br />
See index for more titles by Ed <strong>Young</strong>.<br />
EARLY THUNDER<br />
“[In this] superior historical novel...<br />
events rapidly transpiring in Salem, Massachusetts,<br />
in 1774 force 14-year-old<br />
Daniel West to re-examine his loyalties,<br />
and finally to change from Tory to Whig.<br />
The building of suspense and the realistic<br />
portrayal of characters and motivations<br />
sustain interest.”<br />
—School Library JournalH<br />
Rec: BL, CS, E, H, LC, NC, NYT, SLJH, TE, W<br />
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 256 pp. 1987<br />
978-0-14-032259-0 $6.99<br />
THE GREAT LITTLE MADISON<br />
“The author takes her very special ability<br />
to make historical figures live for contemporary<br />
children and turns it to James<br />
Madison, our fourth president....A great<br />
book about a great little president.”<br />
—The Horn BookH<br />
Rec: AN, BKL, BLH, CH, CR, CS, E, HH KH, NA, NC, NYC,<br />
NYT, PW, R, SLJH, TE, V, W<br />
5 x 7 3/4 160 pp. 1998<br />
978-0-698-11621-4 $5.99<br />
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE<br />
and the Beecher Preachers<br />
“Many kids will be stimulated to go on<br />
from here to find out more about the famous<br />
novel [Uncle Tom’s Cabin]; how it<br />
was read then, the controversy surrounding<br />
it now, especially with regard to the<br />
caricature of Uncle Tom. Fritz quietly<br />
dramatizes a momentous truth: this<br />
woman wrote a book that, with all its<br />
flaws, changed the world.” —BooklistH<br />
“An important contribution to women’s<br />
history as well as to the history of American<br />
letters.” —The Horn Book<br />
Rec: BLH, C, CS, H, NYC, SLJH, W<br />
5 x 7 3/4 154 pp. 1998<br />
978-0-698-11660-3 $5.99<br />
HOMESICk<br />
My Own Story<br />
Illustrated by Margot Tomes<br />
“Fritz draws readers into scenes of her<br />
youth in the turbulent China of the midtwenties.<br />
One comes to appreciate the<br />
generous affection of her nurse/companion<br />
Lin Nai-Nai, the isolating distance in<br />
her mother’s grief over losing a second<br />
child, the dynamics of a suffering population<br />
venting its hostility on foreigners,<br />
and most of all, the loneliness of a child’s<br />
exile from a homeland she has imagined<br />
constantly but never seen.” —BooklistH<br />
Rec: AN, BKL, BLH, CS, H, IN, NYC, NYT, PW, R, SLJ, TE, W<br />
Newbery Honor<br />
National Book Award<br />
5 x 7 3/4 192 pp. 1999<br />
978-0-698-11782-2 $5.99<br />
Puffin Modern Classic<br />
5 x 7 176 pp. 2007<br />
978-0-14-240761-5 $6.99<br />
See index for more titles by Margot Tomes.<br />
MAkE WAY FOR SAM HOUSTON<br />
Illustrated by Elise Primavera<br />
Colorful Sam Houston leaps to life in the<br />
pages of this fresh and funny biography,<br />
set against the story of Texas’s fight for<br />
independence from Mexico. “Jean Fritz<br />
has done it again....Her writing turns this<br />
larger-than-life character into a very real<br />
person.” —School Library JournalH<br />
Rec: AN, BLH, C, CR, CS, E, H, KH, NYTH, PW, SLJH, V, W<br />
5 x 7 3/4 112 pp. 1998<br />
978-0-698-11646-7 $5.99<br />
See index for more titles by Elise Primavera.