Gratefully Yours

In 1933, Hattie is sent to Nebraska after her parents die in a New York tenement fire. Once there, she lives on a farm with Henry and Elizabeth Jansen who are dealing with the deaths of their two children. While Elizabeth has trouble getting out of bed, Hattie feels unwanted and isolated. Together, they try to build a new life and come to terms with their personal losses.

Children's Books

Buchanan, Jane

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Young Readers Group

Sent to live on a farm in Nebraska, Hank and his brother leave the orphanage in New York to start life anew, but the harsh treatment by his new family and the sudden departure of his brother leave Hank with feelings of despair until he meets up with Ms. McIntire who gives him solace from his troubled world. Reprint.

Hank's Story

Puffin

After the rest of her family dies in a tenement fire in 1923, nine-year-old Hattie travels from New York to live on a farm in Nebraska, where she struggles to get along with a couple who seems to resent her presence.

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Sent to live on a farm in Nebraska, Hank and his brother leave the orphanage in New York to start life anew, yet the harsh treatment by his new family and the sudden departure of his brother leaves Hank with feelings of despair until he meets up with Ms. McIntire who gives him solace from his troubled world. By the author of Gratefully Yours.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Forming bonds in a time of warIt's the summer of 1943, and for twelve-year-old Celie Marsh the war seems awfully close to her coastal Massachusetts home. She worries about bombs and submarines, and about her big brother, who can't wait to go off and fight. Her little brother doesn't seem to need her anymore, and her best friend has moved away. When her father brings Charley, a monkey, home from work one day, Celie finds the comforting companion she has been missing. But more upheaval is in store: irritating Joey Bentley moves in with his crabby grandmother next door, her mother takes a job building warships, and worst of all, Charley proves to be too wild for Celie to manage. A near disaster forces Celie to make a heart-wrenching decision that teaches her painful lessons about friendship, family, and the meaning of love. This tender novel about relationships, based on the author's mother's experience, is elegantly crafted and suffused with warmth, as well as with a powerful sense of time and place.

Goodbye, Charley

Animals

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

A story about empathy and charity Nine-year-old Meggie hates Old Sam, the berry-picking man. He smells bad, he talks to himself, and, worst of all, he likes Meggie. She wishes her mother, a photographer, didn’t feel responsible for Old Sam, and especially that Mama didn’t involve Meggie in her charitable activities. Mama doesn’t bother Meggie’s sisters. Maybe it’s because they’re older. Meggie figures being the baby in the family must also be why she can’t have what she wants most, a camera of her own. As Christmas approaches, she longs for one, and when she finally opens her heart to Old Sam, Meggie earns her camera. Illustrated with poignant watercolor paintings, this is an unusual and thought-provoking story about a girl who discovers more than one common bond with her mother, and who wonders whether she is cursed or blessed.

The Berry-Picking Man

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Biographies

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Teen & Young Adult

In 1923, nine-year-old Hattie rides the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where she must adjust to a strange new life with a farmer and his wife, who is despondent over the loss of her two children.

Demco Media

Sagebrush Education Resources

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Gratefully Yours

Hank's Story

Gratefully Yours

Hank's Story

Goodbye, Charley

The Berry-Picking Man

Mary Tudor: Courageous Queen or Bloody Mary? (Wicked History)

Mary Tudor (A Wicked History)

Gratefully Yours

Gratefully Yours