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    Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure
      Alice Ramsey and three other women face floods, mud, and travel without maps as they drive from New York to San Francisco--in 1909. The charming watercolors add realistic humor to the narrative.
      Author: Brown, Don HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Black Ships Before Troy
      This beautifully illustrated book retells Homer's epic poem The Iliad about the Trojan War. A glossary of names is included.
      Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary HSE Descriptors: language arts - reading

    Boy Who Saved Cleveland, The
      During a malarial epidemic in the late 18th century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone.
      Author: Giblin, James Cross HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page
      Tobias, an 11-year-old boy, goes to serve as a page for a year in his uncle's castle in 13th Century England. Notes for the Reader contains additional historical information.
      Author: Platt, Richard HSE Descriptors: social studies | language arts - writing

    Eleanor Roosevelt
      Freedman relates this biography of Eleanor Roosevelt with the interest of suspense fiction which is accompanied by extensive archival photographs. The book traces her evolution from a shy young girl from an unhappy home to America's most acclaimed First
      Author: Freedman, Russell HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Fish
      The story of the difficult and dangerous journey a family must make out of a country hit with drought and civil unrest. The story is told from the point of view of the family's youngest member who decides to take a live fish on the journey.
      Author: Matthews, L. S. HSE Descriptors: literature and arts | social studies

    Gowanus Dogs
      A homeless man meets some homeless dogs. The meeting changes everyone's life.
      Author: Frost, Jonathan

    Miss Rumphius
      The Lupine Lady, the great-aunt of the narrator, travels around the world but returns to Maine to plant lupines and make her world a better place.
      Author: Cooney, Barbara HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Moon Over Tennessee
      A boy accompanies his father into the Confederate Army in the Civil War, eventually arriving at the battle of Gettysburg. The story-poem is told in a format of journal entries. Somber black and white woodcuts contribute to the tragic tone. A map and an
      Author: Crist-Evans, Craig HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Moving Mama to Town
      Enterprising Freddy James moves his mother and younger brother to town after his father leaves and the farm fails. He works at the local saloon where he learns from everyone he meets.
      Author: Young, Ronder Thomas

    My Sister's Keeper
      Set in modern day Rhode Island, this novel tells the story of two sisters: Kate, the elder sister, has a rare form of leukemia and Anna, the younger sister, was conceived as a bone marrow donor for her sister. This book deals with medical and moral ethics
      Author: Picoult, Jodi

    Night the Bells Rang, The
      This short novel (76 pages), told from the point of view of a farm boy, tells the story of Mason's struggles with a bully, and of his growing up. Although the book has the feel of a reminiscence, the emotions are complex and the characters ring true.
      Author: Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

    Princess of the Press
      This biography of Ida Wells- Barnett chronicles her remarkable career in civil rights as a journalist against lynching, publisher of African American newspapers, speaker and activist for women's right to vote, and founder of the National Association for t
      Author: Medearis, Angela HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Relatively Speaking
      Centered around a family reunion, a boy speaks about his older brother, his parents, grandparents, and extended family in short, easily accessible free verse.
      Author: Fletcher, Ralph

    Saying It Out Loud
      Mindy is a typical 16-year-old teenager when her mother develops a serious medical problem. This touching story alternates between Mindy's current feelings and actions and flashbacks to earlier memories to show her reaction to this terrible tragedy.
      Author: Abelove, Joan

    Under the Shadow of Wings
      Obie, a developmentally disabled boy dies causing a variety of emotional response from his friend Tatnall, an 11-year-old girl.
      Author: Banks, Sara


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