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    Anno's Journey
      Anno arrives by small boat, bargains for a horse, and begins a journey across Europe that crosses countries and merges past with present. The reader sees quiet villages, working farms, towering castles, and bustling cities. This world is populated with
      Author: Anno, Mitsumasa

    Birds on a Wire
      Renga poem (meaning linked verse in which one poet writes a verse and the other poet adds another verse, and so on) built around the day to day happenings of a small town. The authors trade stanza and bounce around the town as though they were observing
      Author: Lewis, J. Patrick & Paul Janeczko HSE Descriptors: language arts - reading | social studies

    Color of My Words, The
      This is an easy-reading novel, part poetry and part prose, about Ana Rosa, a young writer who is growing up poor in a seaside village in the Dominican Republic where she learns about family community, the merengue, and the power of words.
      Author: Joseph, Lynn HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Flood
      As Sarajean and her family prepare for and deal with the devastating Midwest floods of 1993, they discover what is truly important during a time of trouble.
      Author: Calhoun, Mary

    Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
      This Newberry Award winner gives voice to residents of a medieval English village circa 1255. Poems in monologue form interspersed with explanatory passages bring the village to life. The book includes a map locating the characters in the village and an
      Author: Schlitz, Laura Amy HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Secret-Keeper, The
      This is a fairy tale about Kalli, the secret-keeper, who takes others' secrets on so that they can be released from them. All the bad secrets threaten to make her ill until the townspeople come to her rescue.
      Author: Coombs, Kate

    Waiting for the Owl's Call
      This narrative is rich in beautiful language - similes, personifications that describes the daily lives of Afghanistani children who work at rug looms looms using ancient patterns handed down from their ancestors. The narrator mentally creates new patter
      Author: Whelan, Gloria HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Waiting for the Owl's Call
      This narrative is rich in beautiful language - similes, personifications that describes the daily lives of Afghanistani children who work at rug looms looms using ancient patterns handed down from their ancestors. The narrator mentally creates new patter
      Author: Whelan, Gloria HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Wolf of Gubbio, The
      A legend tells the story of a wolf who terriorizes a community until the boy who became St.Francis of Assisi, negotates an agreement.
      Author: Bedard, Michael

    Year Down Yonder, A
      This is the sequel to A Long Way From Chicago. Both books have won awards, the Newbery Medal for this one. Mary Alice goes to live with her spunky, trouble-making grandma in rural Illinois because the Depression has torn her family apart.
      Author: Peck, Richard


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