Last Left Standing

Through his friendship with an elderly woman and her granddaughter, Josh comes to terms with his brother's death

Children's Books

Russell, Barbara Timberlake

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Puffin

“In Amerikay,” Maggie’s da has told her, “we will start anew.” It’s 1898, and Maggie McCrary and her family have just crossed the ocean to settle in New Orleans. America is the answer to her father’s dream of books and proper learning. For her mother, it offers the chance to buy land. But living in a crowded tenement watching her neighbors work hard all day, Maggie isn’t sure she likes Amerikay. Then Maggie discovers kinship in Nathan, an African American boy, and hope in the ragtime music he plays – music that seems to shout: Free! Free! I choose who I will be! Striking illustrations pull readers into the rich mix of people that make up New Orleans in the 1890s and into the story of one young girl’s quest to find her own place in America. Maggie's Amerikay is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Maggie's Amerikay

Literature & Fiction

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

A surprising journey of self-discovery In early fall, the blackbirds creak like rusty wheels behind our apartment . . . "One day I will return like you," my mother tells the birds. "But for now, you go. Que les vaya bien. Safe journey." Ana doesn't understand the pull of this faraway place until one night she puts her favorite thing -- a stone spit from the volcanoes of Costa Rica - underneath her pillow. She imagines herself a blackbird flying to this country her mother longs to see again, with "mountains [that] stretch over steamy cedar and ebony forests, noisy with bright birds . . . [her] grandfather and uncles gathering cacao pods from the trees." And as Ana imagines what she would see, she develops her own emotional link to this place and people, who, while far away, are part of her. This evocative picture book with its striking, bold art celebrates the importance of hope, dreams, and cultural roots -- and will have special resonance for all thos who find themselves at the crossroads of two cultures.

The Remembering Stone (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended (Awards))

Animals

After being hit by lightning and suspended between worlds, Calvin returns to his body and back to the world he knows, but he brings with him the spirit of Rory, the ghost of a troublesome boy, who soon makes Calvin's life very difficult with his violent pranks.

Blue Lightning

Teen & Young Adult

Viking Juvenile

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Books by Russell, Barbara Timberlake

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Last Left Standing

Maggie's Amerikay

The Remembering Stone (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended (Awards))

Blue Lightning