What books should be adapted into TV series?
Ashes
Set in Germany pre-WWII during the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, a schoolgirl who loves reading- and happens to be neighbors with Albert Einstein- faces the prospect of her books being taken away from her- and books overall being burned.
Call it Courage
A boy in a Pacific island tribe, teased due his being terrified of the ocean, sets out on the open ocean with just his small dog for company.
*A sixteen-year-old girl heads to her late uncle's claim in Montana, determined to prove herself as a homesteader. Set during the anti-German propaganda of WWI, one of her neighbors is married to a German man. This is a time where people are calling sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and even kids are in the habit of calling Germans "Huns"- as in barbarians.
The Carole Marsh Mysteries series
Two kids stumble across a series of real-life mysteries while accompanying their mystery-story-writing aunt across the U.S. and the world.
The Limit
Set in a future where each family has a limit of money they can spend, a thirteen-year-old boy is sent to a warehouse after his family exceeds their spending limit, where he stumbles onto a network of mystery.
The Melendy Quartet series
New York City in the 1940s as told through the eyes of four siblings- starting out at seven (Oliver), eleven (Miranda/Randy), twelve (Rush) and thirteen (Mona).
The Saturdays: They pool their allowance money and one child at a time spends a Saturday doing something they want to do.
The Four-Story Mistake: They move from their house in the city to a house in the countryside.
Then There were Five: They meet a neighbor boy.
Spiderweb for Two: The two youngest siblings discover a puzzle that leads them on a chain reaction of adventures.
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