Books with author Susan Bearfield

Why do we need to eat?Why is it not good for us to eat just candy?What is healthy food and why is it important to eat it? Learning Bernie wants to know all about healthy food and macronutrients, and Professor Bird is here to help! Learning Bernie's Grown-up Knowledge for Kids is an educational book series for children. With simple explanations and cute illustrations, it teaches kids the most important life skills at an early age, helping them understand the importance of their everyday decisions and gain knowledge on how things work in the grown-up world.

In 1944, as Budapest’s Jews begin to suffer under German occupation, eleven-year-old Zsuzsi (Susie) takes to her diary to write about her friends and family as she copes with what it means to be persecuted. Precocious and charming, Susie records the mundane along with the poignant as she describes her daily life in Budapest against the backdrop of the war. After the war, uncertain whether she made the right decision to emigrate, Susie writes all her feelings down in a new diary, the only place where she feels she truly belongs.

"I will be eleven years old tomorrow. I must confess I think I am pretty," writes Susan Garfield in her diary in 1944. Precocious and charming, Susan records the mundane along with the poignant as she describes her daily life in Budapest against the backdrop of the war. After liberation, as she searches for home, she pours her fears and anxieties as a new immigrant into another diary, the only place where she feels she truly belongs.