In the late nineteenth century, Lillie gains friendship and help with a spelling bee from a neighbor who braves criticism to speak out about women’s rights.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Henry Holt
Copyright September 1, 2003
ISBN# 0-8050-6981-X (HB)
After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger packages.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Farrar, Strauss, Giroux
Copyright September 12, 2003
ISBN# 0-374-30922-1 (HB)
When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save his sister and a boy who has bullied him for years.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Simon & Schuster
Copyright August 1, 2003
ISBN# 0-689-85272-X (HB)
In eighteenth-century London, a young orphan who sings like an angel but is unable to speak, is befriended by the great composer George Frederic Handel and finds his way home.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright October 1, 2003
ISBN# 0-439-05850-3 (HB)
Biologist Christina Allen describes her fascinating adventures in Africa, including watching the shadow of a hippo lurking outside her tent!
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright February 3, 2003
ISBN# 0-688-17826-X (HB)
This title explores a year in the life of four teenage girls as they live and work on their home ranches in Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and New Mexico.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright February 3, 2003
ISBN# 0-06-029255-5 (HB)
In 1888, a young, female reporter for New York World newspaper sets out to travel around the world in fewer than eighty days, while a Cosmopolitan magazine reporter tries to beat her to the goal.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Peachtree
Copyright September 1, 2003
ISBN# 1-56145-289-0 (HB)
A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg round 1450 but also at its precursors.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Houghton Mifflin
Copyright September 22, 2003
ISBN# 0-618-26351-9 (HB)