Tuesday, November 8, 2011

New Books

The Red Tails: World War II's Tuskegee Airmen - Steven L. Jones
An account of the U.S. Army Air Corp's 99th Pursuit Squadron, an all-black flying unit of World War II.

North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad - Kathrine Ayres
Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.


Cabin on Trouble Creek - Jean Van Leeuwen
In 1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to finish the log cabin and guard the land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch their mother and younger siblings.

The Bells of Christmas - Virginia Hamilton
Twelve-year-old Jason describes the wonderful Christmas of 1890 that he and his family celebrate in their home in Springfield, Ohio.

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