Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author . Houghton $8.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-618-36923-2
"Drawing from a broad expanse of resources, Bartoletti spins the stories of 11-year-old Harriet Hanson, who joined striking workers in the Lowell, Mass., mills of the 1830s, and myriad other children who began to realize the unfairness of 19th-
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author . Scholastic Nonfiction $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-439-35379-3
Bartoletti (Kids on Strike!
) offers a unique and riveting perspective on WWII by focusing on the young people who followed Hitler from 1933–1945. The narrative primarily focuses on members of the Hitler Youth, but also profiles some of the...
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (202p) ISBN 978-0-439-68013-4
Returning to material she uncovered while researching Hitler Youth
, Bartoletti offers a fictionalized biography of Helmuth Hübener, a Hamburg teenager who, in February 1942, was arrested for writing and distributing leaflets that denounced...
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Houghton Mifflin, $19 (176p) ISBN 978-0-618-44033-7
In this comprehensive, accessible account, Newbery Honor author Bartoletti (Hitler Youth) draws from documentary histories, slave narratives, newspapers, congressional testimony, and other sources to chronicle the origins and proliferation of the Ku
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-395-88892-6
Covering more historical ground than in her lauded photo-essay Growing Up in Coal Country, Bartoletti highlights the roles that children and young adults played in American labor strikes during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bartoletti has a...
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author Blue Sky Press (AZ) $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-590-38371-4
Men go to war to vanquish enemies. Boys go to war to vanquish childhood. This piercing novel conveys both concepts as it explores the Civil War through the eager eyes of a 14-year-old Georgia boy, Thrasher McGee. The only way Thrasher can prove to...
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (218p) ISBN 978-0-544-31367-5
In this thoroughly researched biography, Bartoletti (They Called Themselves the KKK) seeks to illuminate the backstory of “Typhoid Mary,” who allegedly infected nearly 50 individuals with the disease. Mary Mallon cooked for wealthy families in turn-o
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author, Beppe Giacobbe, Illustrator , illus. by Beppe Giacobbe. Hyperion $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1824-2
Dog fanciers, especially, will find much to love in this offbeat and energetic paean to man's best friend, the latest collaboration from the team behind Nobody's Nosier Than a Cat
. For anyone in search of an adjective to describe canines'
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author, David Christiana, Illustrator , illus. by David Christiana. Scholastic/Blue Sky $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-98451-5
Like The Shine Man, Bartoletti's (No Man's Land) poignant story is also set during the Depression. "Do hoboes have Christmas?" a girl asks her down-and-out father, after weeks spent hopping freight trains. "They figure out a way,
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, illus. by Holly Meade. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4242-6
In this atmospheric picture book, Bartoletti (The Flag Maker) gives voice to a biblical figure about whom little information exists: Noah's wife, who may have been named Naamah, Bartoletti explains in an author's note. She imagines the soothing...
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author, David Ray, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-517-59426-1
Massimino, toiling in the old country, marvels at the landlord's hilltop mansion, ""perched like a proud, fat cat guarding all that it had caught."" Even the sun and moon seem to belong to the landlord. Yearning for property of his own, Massimino...
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author, Annika Marie Nelson, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200675-4
Bartoletti's (Growing Up in Coal Country) mellifluously written tale revolves around the impending death of a beloved grandmother. Far from sad, the story is largely a celebration of Babci's life as a Polish immigrant. From her deathbed, Babci tells
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