Ellen Levine, Author Holiday House $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1447-5
Readers who have thrilled to Lois Lowry's Number the Stars or Bjarne Reuter's The Boys from St. Petri will want to explore this sober volume about the Danish response to the Nazi occupation. Levine (If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad)...
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Ellen Levine. Carolrhoda Lab, $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7613-6558-7
A film noir atmosphere weaves through this unabashedly political novel that addresses issues of abortion and free speech. Levine (Henry’s Freedom Box) evokes nostalgia for an era of multigenerational families living together, Automats, soda...
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Ellen Levine, Author, Wayne Parmenter, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-590-46134-4
Despite the book's somewhat misleading title (only two pages are devoted to the practice of changing names), Levine ( I Hate English! ; If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King ) offers a comprehensive, well organized discussion of the...
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Ellen Levine, Author, Kadir Nelson, Illustrator , illus. by Kadir Nelson. Scholastic $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-77733-9
Levine (Freedom's Children
) recounts the true story of Henry Brown, a slave who mailed himself to freedom. Thanks to Nelson's (Ellington Was Not a Street
) penetrating portraits, readers will feel as if they can experience Henry's...
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Ellen Levine, Author, Steve Bjorkman, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-42305-2
``Such a lonely language. Each letter stands alone and makes its own noise. Not like Chinese.'' Mei Mei, a bright and articulate immigrant from Hong Kong, is having much difficulty adjusting to the new language and culture at school in New York City.
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Ellen Levine, illus. by Jon Van Zyle. Walker, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-9808-4
When a baby otter is separated from his mother on a stormy day and washes ashore, rescuers take him to an aquarium, where he lives in a pool with “his new mom.” Following her example, he learns to search for food at the bottom of the pool and to...
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