Susie Finkbeiner
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After Annie Jacobson's older brother is deployed to Vietnam during the war, tragedy at home brings their estranged father home without welcome. As tensions heighten, Annie and her family must find a way to move forward as they try to hold both hope and grief in the same hand"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adopted family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival in their lives. Though her father supports Mindy's desire to meet her family of origin, he struggles privately with an unsettling fear that he'll lose...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Pearl Spence lives in Dust-Bowl era Oklahoma with her mentally-impaired sister and sheriff father. Pearl's secure life begins to crumble when a hobo named Eddie comes into town and exposes a shocking secret that involves the whole town.
Author
Series
Pearl Spence novels volume 2
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Pearl Spence has been through more in her young life than most folks could handle. But through it all, her family has been by her side. They may not be perfect, but they love her and they all love each other, come what may. That's one thing Pearl no longer questions. But the end of her beautiful day signals the beginning of the end of her secure life. Now her family is fleeing their Oklahoma wasteland. Pearl isn't sure she'll ever see home or happiness...
Author
Series
Pearl Spence volume 3
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Pearl Spence has finally settled into a routine in Bliss, Michigan, far from her home in Red River, Oklahoma. Like all the other kids, she goes to school each day, plays in the woods, and does her chores. But there's one big difference: Mama is still gone, and doesn't seem to have a thought for the family she's left behind. Escaping from her worries is another part of Pearl's new routine, whether that's running to Aunt Carrie's farm, listening to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys -- she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. When Bertha's father is accused of...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Betty Sweet is still recovering from the loss of her husband when she becomes the temporary guardian of a five-year-old nephew she never knew she had. As they struggle to move forward, they build a relationship upon the foundation of storytelling and its special kind of magic."--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
A Heart in Disguise by Rachel Scott McDaniel: Clara Westlake loves her job as a seamstress in the US 'Camouflage Corps'. When she overhears a threat against New York City, the Great War comes too close to home - except no one believes her forewarning. She must recruit Marcus Reeves, a childhood friend searching for his purpose after suffering a devastating war injury. A Letter to Eli by Allison Pittman: Bette and Alice are lifelong friends, trying...