When Manjiro and several other Japanese fisherman get stranded on an island without food or water, they are rescued by an American whaling boat.  Manjiro begins to learn English and develops a friendship with the ships’ captain.  Getting rescued is only the beginning of his journey.

One of the most compelling rags-to-riches stories of modern times in this biography of the legendary Charlie Chaplin.  Includes archival prints and photos.

-From the Library of Congress

What Happened on Fox Street

Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father’s house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.

-From the Library of Congress

The Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter

The Hardscrabble children are weird.  Otto doesn’t speak.  Lucia is shamelessly candid.  And Max likes to sit on the roof of their house.  Life in a small town can be pretty boring when everyone avoids you like the plague.  But after their father unwittingly sends them to stay with an aunt who’s away on holiday, the children take off on an adventure that ends in a peculiar seaside village where legend has it a monstrous creature lives who is half boy and half animal…  In this wickedly dark, unusual, and compelling novel, Ellen Potter masterfully tells the tale of one deliciously strange family, and a secret that changes everything.

-From the Inside Flap

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http://www.ellenpotter.com/