Category Archives: Inspirational
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The Other Half of My Heart
Posted on August 9, 2011 by Children's Department Staff in Inspirational, Realistic Fiction, social issuesby Sundee T. Fraizer Kiera and Minni are your average twins; they love hanging out with one another, sharing jokes, whispering secrets and are always there to support the other. There is one difference, however, between the two…the color of their skin. Kiera has black skin like their mama, and Minni has white skin, like [...]
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One Crazy Summer
Posted on January 23, 2011 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Inspirational, Newbery, other award winners, social issuesby Rita Williams-Garcia Eleven year-old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonnetta and Fern embark on a physical and emotional journey during what turns out to be One Crazy Summer. They are sent to Oakland, California in the summer of 1968 to the care of their radical-poet mother, Cecile, who left them when Fern was just [...]
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My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood
Posted on December 18, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Inspirational, social issues, world culturesby Rosemary Wells My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood by Rosemary Wells is a stunning jewel of a story. Expressive in it’s descriptive sentences and wonderful illustrations by Peter Ferguson, this book details the journey of young Secundino (Dino) Fernandez from his beautiful Havana to Madrid and eventually New York City in the 1950′s. [...]
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The Dancing Pancake
Posted on October 21, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Inspirational, Poetry, social issuesMeet Bindi Winkler. She is trying to survive her parents seperation, moving into a small apartment above her mother and aunts new restraunt, The Dancing Pancake, and avoiding her father at all costs…since afterall, this is all his fault. Right? This book, by children’s author Eileen Spinieli, is told through a series of prose-like poems. [...]
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Also Known as Harper
Posted on October 17, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Inspirational, social issues, William Allen WhiteHarper Lee was named after her momma’s favorite writer, so it’s fitting that she spends so much of her time expressing herself in poetry. In this novel, by Ann Haywood Leal, Harper shares her heartwarming tale of loss, love and survival one carefully chosen word at a time. Harper Lee, her younger brother Hemingway and [...]
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Stand Straight, Ella Kate
Posted on September 1, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Inspirational, Nonfiction, Picture BooksStand Straight, Ella Kate: The True Story of a Real Giant A picture book by Kate and M. Sarah Klise This is the remarkably true story of Ella Kate who at eighteen years old stood eight feet tall. Growing up at an alarming rate made Ella Kate feel left out, secluded from her peers and [...]
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Heart of a Shepherd
Posted on October 13, 2009 by Jennifer in Inspirational, social issuesby Rosanne Parry Ignatious, nicknamed Brother, is left behind to take care of the ranch when his father is called to duty in Iraq and his four older brothers are away at school and training to be soldiers, too. Twelve-year-old Brother takes on all the ranching duties along with help from his grandparents and Ernesto, [...]
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