Hudson, Jan. Sweetgrass. On the barren coast of Cornwall lived an evil community of people who lured ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. John Spencer's ship is lost and he matches wits with the wreckers. Greater Than Angels . Anna Hirsch and her family are rounded up by Nazis and deported to Gurs, a refugee camp for Jews in the south of France.
Families live with the everpresent fear of relocation to death camps.
Anna and the other children are moved to a tiny village whose citizens have agreed to care for deported Jewish children. Based on a true story. Myers, Walter Dean. Just out of high school in 1967, Perry spends a devastating year in Vietnam. Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1840s.