Claire A Nivola
4) Star Child
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Star Child wants very much to visit Earth, but his elders tell him that to do so he will have to be born a human child and endure an existence far different from what he has known.
5) Elisabeth
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Forced to flee the Nazis, a young girl and her family eventually end up in the United States where, years later, with a young daughter of her own, she is improbably reunited with the beloved doll she left behind in Germany.
6) The forest
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A mouse sets out to overcome a lifelong fear of the forest.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how artist Nek Chand, in the aftermath of the partition of India in 1947, created the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, using stockpiled castoff construction materials and debris, as a tribute to the village of his youth.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the Civil War, Lula McLean's family home in Manassas, Virginia, is taken over by the Confederate army and used as its headquarters. Forced to flee by the oncoming Union army, Lula and her family and her favorite rag doll move south to a small village called Appomattox Court House. Then one day in 1865, Lula left her doll behind, and what happened next made history.
10) The flag maker
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
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