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“barbara nickel”

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  • The Mozart Girl

    by Barbara Nickel ...
    Nannerl Mozart’s twelfth-birthday wish is to become a famous composer. She’s already considered a brilliant musician, touring eighteenth-century Europe with her little brother, Wolfgang, and playing for queens and kings in the great courts. But Papa doesn’t take her seriously as a composer because she is a girl, Mama usually has a list of chores for her to do, and Wolfi manages to steal everyone’s ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • From the Top of a Grain Elevator

    by Barbara Nickel ...
    Short-listed for the 1999 CLA Book of the Year for Children AwardAward-winning poet and playwright Barbara Nickel returns to her Prairie roots in a beautiful collection of seasonal poems that chart, with a bird’s-eye view of the western landscape, nature’s glorious playground. Nickel’s experimental verses are perfectly complimented by Kathy Thiessen’s black-and-white etchings, making this ideal ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Boy Asked the Wind

    by Barbara Nickel ...
    Illustrated by Gillian Newland ...
    A spectacular picture book, with text in subtly linked beautifully composed four-line stanzas, evoking winds around the world, including those in the Canadian west, off the coast of Central America, Capetown, and the Middle East. The illustrations are muscular, organic, powerful evocations of the power of those winds. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Dear Peter, Dear Ulla

    by Nickel Barbara ...
    Dear Peter, Dear Ulla is an imaginative and beautifully crafted historical middle-grade novel about two cousins who have never met but have become fast friends through an exchange of letters—until the outbreak of World War Two interrupts their conversation.Ulla lives in Danzig, a city that has just been occupied by the Nazis, and Peter lives on a farm in a Mennonite community in Saskatchewan. What ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • Circle Nine

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  • Waiting for the Storks

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  • 47 Days: The True Story of Two Teen Boys Defying Hitler's Reich

    by Annette Oppenlander ...
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  • My Brother's Shadow

    by Monika Schröder ...
    As World War I draws to a close in 1918, German citizens are starving and suffering under a repressive regime. Sixteen-year-old Moritz is torn. His father died in the war and his older brother still risks his life in the trenches, but his mother does not support the patriotic cause and attends subversive socialist meetings. While his mother participates in the revolution to sweep away the monarchy ... Read more

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    by Katrina Nannestad ...
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  • Ribbon Leaf

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  • Boys No More: True Stories of WWII

    by Annette Oppenlander ...
    As Germany enters its last war year and precious resources, especially available and combat-ready men, have grown scarce, Hitler decides it is time to exploit Germany's teens. Unlike typical battle stories, this collection of true accounts follows four fifteen- to seventeen-year old boys as they struggle with the ever-crumbling Reich, trying to stay alive against the odds.Visiting his brother, ... Read more

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