Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is “a fascinating account of a terrible time” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million …

Growing Up in Coal Country is a book written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow is a non-fiction children's book written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and published in 2005. It received the Newbery Honor medal in 2006. The book is a study of the Hitler Youth, a paramilitary organization of children dedicated to furthering the aims of the Third Reich, …

Kids on Strike! is a 2003 non-fiction book written by award winning author Susan Campbell Bartoletti. It is set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when child labor was prominent in the United States. It consists of eight chapters, which all focus on strikes led by kids, or affecting kids. These kids fought for …

A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who tells the truth about Hitler Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, HITLER YOUTH, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an …