Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother. "Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute--she sneaks out to join him. So begins...

As his mother tucks him in, Matthew describes the amazing adventures of his day.

In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese, and finds their relationship complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.

In 1791 after her family's journey from Pennsylvania, ten-year-old Lizzie suffers from the disease of asthma in her new home in the Southwest Territory (present-day Tennessee).

A candid and fierce middle grade novel about sisterhood and sexual abuse, by two-time Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times best seller Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, author of The War that Saved My Life. Ten-tear-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki....

Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.

Simple language and humorous illustrations show how energy comes originally from the sun and can be transferred from one thing to another.

Die zehnjährige Ada hat die Ein-Zimmer-Wohnung noch nie verlassen. Ihre Mutter ist von Adas Klumpfuß so angewidert, dass sie das Kind wegsperrt. Als ihr kleiner Bruder Jamie aus London evakuiert wird, um der Bombardierung der Stadt durch die deutsche Luftwaffe zu entkommen, entscheidet Ada, dass sie mit ihm fortgehen wird. So beginnt ein großes Abenteuer für Ada wie auch für Susan Smith, die Frau, die gezwungen ist, die beiden Kinder auf dem...