#11 Historical Fiction in Ebooks for Kids

     In this post I will be recommending some historical fiction in ebooks for kids--stories that focus on three different times in history.

     The first is Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata.   Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Sumiko's Japanese American family is forced to move away from their home on a flower farm in California and into an internment camp near the Colorado River in Arizona until the end of World War II. Weedflower is available for both Nooks (Barnes&Noble) and Kindles (Amazon) for $5.99.

     My second recommendation has a similar theme, but takes place more than a hundred years earlier.  Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears was written by Cornelia Cornelissen. In 1838 the Cherokee people were relocated from their homes in North Carolina to Oklahoma. Soft Rain is a 9-year-old girl who becomes temporarily separated from some of her family members on the long and dangerous walk. This ebook is also available for Nook (Barnes&Noble) and Kindle (Amazon) for $5.99. 

     For my third historical fiction ebook, I am recommending Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes.  This book was the winner of the 1943 Newbery Medal, and is the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who becomes involved in the events leading up to the American Revolutionary War, including the Boston Tea Party and the first shots fired at Lexington.  Barnes&Noble's ebook for Nook sells for $5.87, and Amazon's ebook for Kindle sells for $4.99.

     I have one more recommendation which, though not a piece of fiction, is worthy of your notice.  

     Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordical Gerstein, the recipient of the 2004 Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustrations, is an amazing picture book. It shows and tells the story of French aerialist Philippe Petit who, in 1974, walked a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center. (Yes, those same towers!)  Amazon offers it for Kindles at $5.99. 

     Feel free to visit my other blog at www.jumpup2chapterbooks.blogspot.com.  I am discussing where the ideas for my published stories originated, and my picture book Circles in the Wind is the current topic.

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