Love from Your Friend, Hannah by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky

When Grace’s family is evicted from their Washington, D.C., apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the Mission, Grace wonders what will become of her sick older brother, her pregnant mother, and her out-of-work father.Ĭurtis, Christopher Paul.

In Cincinnati, Ohio, in the summer of 1952, eight-year-old Peti gives up his room to his Hungarian relatives, including a twelve-year-old cousin who bullies him, and worries about his grandfather who cannot escape from behind the Iron Curtain.Ĭummings, Priscilla. Twelve-year-old Isobel is unhappy about spending the summer of 1918 at her aunt’s home in Hollywood with her mother and sister until her cousin, Ranger, involves the girls in creating the perfect film and, when her father returns from the war, his serious injury becomes their inspiration.

J FIC BradleyĪ 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.Ĭheaney, J.B. Hazel Kaplansky and new student Samuel Butler investigate rumors that a Russian spy has infiltrated their small Vermont town amidst the fervor of Cold War-era McCarthyism, but more is revealed than they could ever have imagined.īradley, Kimberly Brubaker. Could there really be Commies in Pete’s family?Ī nun and 20 French children hide 10 refugees from the Nazis.īlakemore, Megan Frazer. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete’s doorstep, accusing Pete’s father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. It’s 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas.

Love from Your Friend, Hannah by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky