Books with author Leslie Nelson

Have you ever heard of the Candy Bandit, or a ghost who is afraid of her own shadow? Or how about a bat that ate so much candy that he can’t fly around and scare people on Halloween? If not, then you need to open up this book and start reading!The Halloween Misfits is a fun, beautifully-illustrated book about a crazy bunch of monsters; monsters who don’t quite fit in with other monsters. You see, some of these monster misfits are clumsy, some like to dance and one even likes to eat Gummi Worms! Definitely not your ordinary, scary monsters! Go take a peek inside, if you dare…

An engrossing account of a forbidden love in war-torn Berlin between a Jewish boy and his childhood sweetheart There was a vehicle pulling up outside. I heard the booted feet running up the stairs, then the hammering on the apartment door and the shouting. "Open up! Gestapo!" She is 15 years old and in love. Only this is Nazi-ruled Berlin and he's a Jew, so it's against the law to love him. There are spies everywhere and they're taking the last Jews away from Berlin—to the gas chambers. Powerfully evoking civilian survival in a bomb-blasted city, and the sacrifice and courage required to maintain high individual standards of friendship and integrity, this novel of love and courage in the face of danger is one that readers will not be able to put down.

An engrossing account of a forbidden love in war-torn Berlin between a Jewish boy and his childhood sweetheart There was a vehicle pulling up outside. I heard the booted feet running up the stairs, then the hammering on the apartment door and the shouting. "Open up! Gestapo!" She is 15 years old and in love. Only this is Nazi-ruled Berlin and he's a Jew, so it's against the law to love him. There are spies everywhere and they're taking the last Jews away from Berlin—to the gas chambers. Powerfully evoking civilian survival in a bomb-blasted city, and the sacrifice and courage required to maintain high individual standards of friendship and integrity, this novel of love and courage in the face of danger is one that readers will not be able to put down.

First published in 1859, Nelson Lee's Three Years Among the Comanches is perhaps the most widely known story of all Indian captivity narratives. Lee was a Texan Ranger captured by marauding Indians in the 1850s and forced to live with them as a slave for three years before making his escape. His account includes detailed descriptions of life in a nomadic Comanche village, his marriage to a young squaw, buffalo hunts, Comanche versus Apache conflicts, Comanche mythology and gut-wrenching descriptions of the terrible fates of his fellow-captives who were tortured before him, his life being spared only because of a silver alarm clock he possessed, the loud workings of which mystified his superstitious captors.