#13 Ebooks About Kids Who Move

     We live in an increasingly mobile society, but moving from place to place is not really a new phenomenon.  Today, I will recommend some excellent chapter books on this subject. They are all available as Ebooks at barnesandnoble.com for Nook reading devices and on amazon.com for Kindles.  

     Free apps are also available so that these books can be downloaded to home computers, ipads, some smart phones, and many other devices. 

     My first two recommendations were published in the last ten years.  One of them is usually read by (or to) children in the early grades and the other is more suitable for middle-grade readers.

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     Gooney Bird Green, first published in 2004 by Lois Lowrey, is about a new second-grade student.  Something of an expert in the art of story telling, Gooney Bird Green insists that all of her amazing stories are completely true.  Then she surprises her new classmates by explaining how it is possible.  The Ebook is available for Barnes and Noble's Nook at $9.99 and Amazon's Kindle for $5.69.

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     The Green Glass Sea was first published in 2006 by Ellen Klages.  Set in 1943 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, it is the story of kids who might have moved there with their families at the time the Manhattan Project was being developed. B&N sells it for the Nook for $8.99 and Amazon sells it for Kindle for $8.99.

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     Teetoncey (Book 1 of the Cape Hatteras Trilogy), published in 1974, is another wonderful book by Theodore Taylor whom you may recognize as the author of The Cay and The Trouble With Tuck (see the previous post about animal stories).  The setting for Teetoncey is the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1898.  A shipwreck leaves one lone survivor on the shore, a comatose young girl with no identification. This book sells for $9.30 on B&N for their Nook and $7.99 on Amazon for Kindle.

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     I like to recommend one classic in each of my lists, and my recommendation of a book that has stood the test of time and fits into our theme about kids who move to a new place is Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, first published in 1908.  Set on Prince Edward Island, it is the story of an elderly brother and sister who request a boy to help with the farm work, but receive a girl, instead.  Barnes and Noble and Amazon both sell it for $.99.

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     Next time I will recommend three Ebooks about time travel, one of which is a children's classic.

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