Books like Elvis, Hank, and me by Horace Logan

A verse novel that follows a ten‑year‑old Vietnamese girl’s first year in the United States in 1975, as she navigates language, culture, bullying, and family change while yearning for home.

Mexican farm workers must adjust to life in California during the Great Depression.

A nine‑year‑old girl named Ada escapes her abusive home amid World War II, joining her brother in London’s evacuation; she learns to ride a pony, reads, and finds a new family with Susan Smith while watching for German spies.

Newbery Honor Book National Book Award Finalist

A gifted and rebellious runner is pulled onto a top middle‑school track squad, where he must confront personal and family challenges while discovering his true potential.

A true account of William Kamkwamba, a Malawian boy who, against famine, drought and poverty, builds a working windmill from scrap to bring electricity and water to his village.

Amal unbound follows a young Pakistani girl who, after becoming an indentured servant to clear her family’s debt, clings to her dream of becoming a teacher while confronting injustice and learning the power of courage and resilience.

What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless with the result that the High Street record store is dying. MySpace, Twitter and You Tube are now more important publicity venues for new bands than the concert tour routine. Unauthorized consumption in the form of illegal downloading has created a financial crisis in the industry. The old postwar industrial planning model of pop, which centralized control in the hands of major record corporations, and divided the market into neat segments, is dissolving in front of our eyes. This book offers readers a comprehensive guide to understanding pop music today. It provides a clear survey of the field and a description of core concepts. The main theoretical approaches to the analysis of pop are described and critically assessed. The book includes a major investigation of the revolutionary changes in the production, exchange and consumption of pop music that are currently underway.

Two boys named Wes Moore, raised in Baltimore’s same streets, choose starkly different paths—one a Rhodes Scholar and business leader, the other a life‑sentenced murderer. The memoir chronicles their coincidental lives, letters, and profound reflections on choice and destiny.

Jessie lives in an 1840‑style Clifton, Indiana—only to learn it’s a 1996 reconstruction where diphtheria threatens her village. With her mother’s help she must travel to the real world for medicine before the children die.

Biography of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, detailing his humble beginnings, rise to recording fame, and untimely death in 1977.

Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell fell in love with country music. Abandoned by his father at the age of five, Bobby saw the radio as his way out--a dream that came true in college when he went on air at the Henderson State University campus station broadcasting as Bobby Bones, while simultaneously starting The Bobby Bones Show at 105.9 KLAZ. Bobby's passions were pop, country music, and comedy, and he blended the three to become a tastemaker in the country music industry, heard by millions daily. Bobby broke the format of standard country radio, mixing country and pop with entertainment news and information, and has interviewed some of the biggest names in the business, including Luke Bryan, Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum, and Jason Aldean. Yet despite the glamour, fame, and money, Bobby has never forgotten his roots, the mom and grandmother who raised him, the work ethic he embraced which saved him and encouraged him to explore the world, and the good values that shaped him. In this funny, poignant memoir told in Bobby's distinctive patter, he takes fans on a tour of his road to radio. Bobby doesn't shy away from the curves he continues to navigate, including his obsessive-compulsive disorder, on his journey to find the happiness of a healthy family.