True Boy

Narrated by actress Cherry Jones! The second book in the treasured Little House series, Farmer Boy is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved story of how her husband, Almanzo, grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where Laura lived. The nine Little House books have been cherished by...

On an island lives a boy called Peter and his band of merry lost boys, young forever. That is unless they get sick or killed by pirates or eaten by crocodiles or unless - inexplicably - they grow old. For some of them do grow old, and nobody knows why. One of these boys is called Jamie, and he was the first boy that Peter ever brought to the island. Jamie's lived there for longer than he can remember, and it's not all fun and games.

The astonishing true story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes. He might have died along with them, but his mother selflessly ordered him to save himself. Alone in the forest, he dug a...

This book covers one case – the story of Gabriel Fernandez – probably the best known victim of child murder by abuse in the US. Don't miss this chance to get to know the boy behind the lurid headlines. Like Baby P in the UK, the torture of the eight-year-old shocked the nation, with many of us also watching the Netflix documentary on the case: The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, with anger, sadness and frustration, leaving us with as many questions as answers: Why was he taken from his loving home? Why weren't his injuries taken seriously? Who failed him the most? And the question I ask in...

Perfect for fans of the NYT bestseller Sold on a Monday, this Southern historical novel based on the true story of a boy's mysterious disappearance examines despair, loyalty, and the nature of truth. In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks...

The eldest of seven children born to an abusive father, I endured a childhood of unspeakable violence and ridicule. This courageous memoir details the hardships I faced as I desperately tried to be accepted as a son to a father who does not believe I am his child. I did not endure years of abuse as a child to remain silent. Now I am not ashamed of what I suffered as a child anymore. My story is not easy to read or even comprehend, but it is my truth and my right to tell because it happened to me. It took 58 years to accept that my past cannot be changed and to finally let my past go. I can ...

Fifteen cases. Three states. One river system carrying evidence across county and parish lines. Across the river towns of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, violence rarely remained within a single jurisdiction. Sheriffs, coroners, juries, prison officials, employers, political organizations, racial hierarchies, and federal courts shaped what investigators recorded—and what the law could eventually prove. Backwater examines fifteen documented cases spanning more than a century, from the Colfax and Thibodaux massacres to the murder of Emmett Till, the Scottsboro prosecutions, Parchman ...

This powerful, moving middle grade adaptation of the adult international bestselling narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz shines a light on the true story of two brothers who experienced the atrocities of the Holocaust in very different ways. Fritz Kleinmann...

Poland, 1940. Moshe and his family flee their hometown of Warsaw in a desperate bid for survival as Nazi forces advance on the city. Hiding under false identities, they hope to wait out the end of the war, which must surely be near. But nowhere is truly safe for Poland’s Jews, and soon Moshe and his brother find themselves en route to Auschwitz, from where no one returns. Separated from the rest of their family, they hold on to each other with everything they have.

The true story of two American teenagers turned cartel assassins—and the Mexican American detective who fought to stop them. Wolf Boys is “a hell of a story…undeniably gripping” (The New York Times), a harrowing nonfiction thriller that reads like a crime novel but is rooted in...

Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all-the fight to survive. The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave a new definition to "hell-raising" - on the ground and in the skies.

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by George Clooney The #1 New York Times bestseller freshly adapted for the next generation. Inspiration for the PBS American Experience Documentary 'The Boys of '36' For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the...

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian...

Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school lured Pitonyak to Austin. Yet the former altar boy had a dark, unpredictable streak. When Jennifer failed to show up for work on August 18, 2005, her mother became frightened. Sharon Cave's search led to Colton's West Campus apartment, where Jennifer's family discovered a scene worthy of the grisliest horror movie.

The story of the Essex Boys murders is so much more than a simple gangland hit. It's a maze of whispers, changing stories, and claims of corruption that rips the curtain back on the brutal underworld of the 1990s. You've got the official story on one side: a drug deal that went sideways, a bloody end to a feud between violent men. And on the other side, you have a sprawling conspiracy theory about a professional hit, a cover-up, and the chilling idea that the real architects of this massacre walked free.

The Erie Hall Haunting ranks among the most documented paranormal events in United States history, defined by full-bodied apparitions, disembodied voices, moving objects, physical attacks, photographs and audio tapes. More than a dozen witnesses have professed their experience with this Western New York extreme haunting that found a teenage Di Cesare at its epicenter, and to whom urban legend ascribed the nickname “The Ghost Boy of Erie Hall.”

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed...

By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. The son of a wealthy hedge fund manager and a financier, he grew up surrounded by a loving family and all the luxury an Upper East Side childhood could provide: education at the elite Buckley School and Deerfield Academy, summers in a sprawling seaside mansion in the Hamptons. He was strikingly handsome, moving with ease through glittering social circles and following in his father's footsteps to Princeton. But Tommy always felt different, and the cracks in his façade began to show.

As seen on Yahoo News At five years old, Robert’s world was already on fire. Growing up in New Mexico with an abusive, unpredictable mother and a revolving door of strangers, he faced the kind of chaos no child should ever know. Violence, neglect, betrayal—these were the foundations of his earliest memories. Only in the arms of his grandmother and aunt did he feel brief moments of safety. Asleep (Drifting) Book One pulls back the curtain on a childhood shaped by trauma and survival. With unfiltered honesty, Robert invites you into the heartbreaking, confusing, sometimes shockingly ...

6-7. You’ve seen the meme. You’ve laughed at the jokes. Now get ready for 67 wild, weird, and totally true facts that take this viral number to a whole new level. From sports and science to history and pop culture, 67 Facts About 6-7 packs each page with bite-sized fun. Every fact connects to the number 67 in some way—and the results will make you say “Wait… WHAT?!” Perfect for readers ages 8 and up (and every teacher or parent secretly obsessed with random trivia), this hilarious fact book is part meme, part mind-expanding classroom favorite. Inside you’ll discover: Sports ...