Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Books In Order

One-of-a-Kind Mallie

Mallie is so tired of being an identical twin, she could scream! To everyone in Cedarville, she’s just the second half of Hallie and Mallie, the adorable pair. Mother sews them matching dresses, and now their teacher has even assigned them the same poem to recite together at the school picnic. It may look as if the twins are the same child twice, but inside, Mallie feels as different as the Gypsies who have set up camp nearby. If only her family and her best friend Ruthie understood.

Mallie’s summer will be filled with more than its share of struggle and disappointment. But with the help of a surprising new friend and the joy of a secret hobby, it just may also bring its share of discovery and wonder. It just may be one of a kind.

Weaver’s Daughter

It is 1791 in the Southwest Territory now Tennessee, and Lizzy Baker loves her pioneer life. Her father is a farmer and her mother a weaver, and she and her sisters enjoy a hardworking life that is also filled with simple pleasures. Lizzy longs to grow up to be a weaver like her mother. But every autumn Lizzy gets sick. Now she is 10 years old, and the bouts of illness are getting worse. Neither the local doctor nor the midwife is sure what is wrong with Lizzy, let alone how to cure her. As soon as the winter frost comes, Lizzy gets well again, and this winter also brings some distraction in the form of rich neighbors the fine Miss Sarah Beaumont and her handsome stepson are visiting from Charleston. Lizzy, though, is worried about next fall can she survive this illness one more time? When fear threatens to overwhelm her, she learns an important truth about facing life, even in the shadow of death.

Halfway to the Sky

Twelve year old Dani is running away from home, or what’s left of home anyway. Her older brother, who had muscular dystrophy, died a few months ago. Then her father left and her parents got divorced. Now home is just Dani and her sad, silent mother, and Dani s got to get away. She plans to do something amazing, and go where her parents will never find her: she s going to hike the whole Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine. The trail is a legend in her family, the place where her parents met, fell in love, and got married 14 years before. Unfortunately for her master plan, her mother doesn t have much trouble figuring out where Dani s gone. Now it s the two of them, hiking for as long as Dani can manage to persuade her mother to keep going. But Dani s got an even longer emotional journey to make and it s one she and her mom need to make together. From the Hardcover edition.

For Freedom

A teenager transforms from a schoolgirl to a spy in this true story of heroism in wartime. Suzanne David’s everyday life is suddenly shattered in 1940 when a bomb drops on the main square of her hometown, the city of Cherbourg, France, killing a pregnant neighbor right in front of her. Until then the war had seemed far away, not something that would touch her or her teenage friends. Now Suzanne’s family is kicked out onto the street as German soldiers take over their house as a barracks. Suzanne clings to the one thing she really loves singing. Her voice is so amazing that she is training to become an opera singer. As Suzanne travels around for rehearsals, cosume fittings, or lessons, she learns more about what the Na*zis are doing and about the people who are ‘disappearing.’ Her travels are noticed by someone else, an organizer of the French Resistance. Soon Suzanne is a secret courier, a spy fighting for France and risking her own life For Freedom. From the Hardcover edition.

The President’s Daughter

ETHEL IS 10 YEARS OLD in 1901 when her family’s life changed forever. Suddenly, Father is not only a famous cowboy, war hero, and politician, but also President Theodore Roosevelt, leader of the United States and Ethel has a new place to call home. The White House is older and stuffier than Ethel imagined, but there s never a dull moment with her adventurous family around. Ethel would love to spend every day following Father on horseback rides and scrambles through neighboring Rock Creek Park.

Instead, Ethel has to stay at boarding school during the week, where nothing she does feels right and none of the girls seem to like her. Ethel s parents keep telling her to keep her chin up and be patient, but it s not easy being the president s daughter. Ethel wishes she could be as courageous as father and make her family proud. When her fashionable older sister arrives home, Ethel feels new hope. Sister knows the secret of being brave and making friends, and she s willing to share it. All Ethel needs to do is take one outrageous dare.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Lacemaker and the Princess

ELEVEN YEAR OLD ISABELLE IS A LACEMAKER IN THE TOWN OF VERSAILLES. One day as she delivers lace to the palace, she is almost trampled by a crowd of courtiers only to be rescued by Marie Antoinette. Before Isabelle can believe it, she has a new job companion to the queen’s daughter. Isabelle is given a fashionable name, fashionable dresses a new identity. At home she plies her needle under her grandmother’s disapproving eye. At the palace she is playmate to a princess. Thrown into a world of luxury, Isabelle is living a fairy tale life. But this facade begins to crumble when rumors of starvation in the countryside lead to whispers of revolution. How can Isabelle reconcile the ugly things she hears in the town with the kind family she knows in the palace? And which side is she truly on? Inspired by an actual friendship between the French princess and a commoner who became her companion, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley offers a vivid portrait of life inside the palace of Versailles and a touching tale of two friends divided by class and the hunger for equality and freedom that fueled the French Revolution.

Leap of Faith

Abigail is starting a new middle school, a Catholic school, because she?s been expelled from her old one. She?s sure that this place will be just the same as the last, and no one will listen to her here either. Even her parents don?t seem able to really hear the truth about what happened at the previous school. But now she finds herself in a community of people who do listen, who want to be her friends, and who help her discover a talent for theater that she never knew she had. Converting to Catholicism began merely as a way to annoy her parents, but quickly it becomes more. Could she be developing real faith? Kimberly Brubaker Bradley masterfully tells the tale of Abigail?s spiritual journey and the faith that comes to those who need it.

Jefferson’s Sons

What does it mean when the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence is your father and also your slave master? Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson’s children, but their mother is a slave, so they must keep their father s identity secret. They get special treatment better work, better shoes, even violin lessons but they are still slaves. Their father has promised to set them all free when each turns twenty one. Some of them are light skinned enough that they will be able to enter white society and thereby turn their backs on home forever. Others won t have that option. So just what did their father mean when he wrote all men are created equal? Told in three parts from the points of view of three of Jefferson s slaves Beverly, Madison, and a third boy close to the Hemings family these engaging and poignant voices shed light on what life was like as one of Thomas Jefferson s invisible offspring.

Favorite Things

‘What was your favorite thing today?’ asks Mommy as she tucks Matthew into bed. His answer gets more and more outrageous: Maybe it was the singing elephants who woke him up that morning, or the supersonic car race to school, or meeting a tyrannosaurus squirrel who lives in a tree castle. But in the end none of those wildly imagined happenings was his favorite. What was? A good night hug and kiss from Mommy, of course! Inspired by her own bedtime ritual with her son, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley shapes a heartwarming and very funny story of the inner life of children, made all the more appealing through Laura Huliska Beith’s gloriously bold, inventive artwork.

Ballerino Nate

Nate has the heart of a dancer, and he is determined to learn ballet. Even his older brother, Ben, can t change his mind with his claims that ‘boys don t dance.’ Or can he? When Ben tells Nate that he ll have to wear pink shoes and a dress, Nate becomes awfully worried. And when he’s the only boy in his ballet class, he begins to think that Ben is right: Maybe boys don t dance. Exuberant and true to childhood, this is a warm and funny story about sibling squabbles, the joy of ballet, and best of all, grabbing hold of your dreams.

The Perfect Pony

Katie’s very first word was pony, and ever since, she has dreamed of having her own sleek, spirited, perfect pony. So when Mom says that it s finally time to start looking for one, she finds it hard to be patient. As she and Mom visit barns, Katie looks at each pony and wonders, Is this the one? But the first is too nervous, and others too stubborn, too scary, too old. Then Katie meets a round, filthy little pony with a coat as shaggy as a bear. But there s something special about him…

No horse lover will be able to resist this warm, genuine story with the ultimate happy ending.

POP!

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Why are soap bubbles always round? Why do they always go POP? Simple, clear text explains the basic science behind an activity every child loves.

Energy Makes Things Happen

Did you know that energy comes from the food you eat? From the sun and wind? From fuel and heat? You get energy every time you eat. You transfer energy to other things every time you play baseball. In this book, you can find out all the ways you and everyone on earth need energy to make things happen.

Forces Make Things Move

There are forces at work whenever you throw a ball, run up the stairs, or push your big brotheroff the couch. Want to learn more about the forces around you? Read and find out!