After fleeing her native Afghanistan fourteen-year-old Shauzia is living in a refugee camp in Pakistan. She masquerades as a boy to try and earn money to fulfill her dream of living in France.
2005-2006 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Groundwood
Copyright August 12, 2003
ISBN# 0-88899-518-0 (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)
Twin baby brothers are abandoned on their uncle’s doorstep in early twentieth-century England with nothing but a silver-stringed dulcimer.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright June 3, 2003
ISBN# 0-06623609-6 (PB, HB)
In 1911, Yale professor Hiram Bingham, on a trek to find a rumored lost city of the Incas, discovers another a lost Incan city with the help of a Peruvian boy. What he stumbled onto was even more beautiful and amazing.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Philomel
Copyright June 2, 2003
ISBN# 0-399-23302-4 (HB)
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a messenger to run to new places in her beloved but decaying city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
2005-2006 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Random House
Copyright May 13, 2003
ISBN# 0-375-82273-9 (HB)
In the morning, Emma climbs Snuggle Mountain, trying to rouse the two-headed Sleeping Giant to make pancakes for breakfast.
2005-2006 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Clarion
Copyright April 21, 2003
ISBN# 0-618-04328-4 (HB)
When Sammy tries to look for God with his binoculars, his grandfather explains where and how to find Him.
2005-2006 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 15, 2003
ISBN# 0-06-051909-6 (HB)
A father takes his sleepless child out in the night to see the moon and the animals as a way to relax them both.
2005-2006 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 15, 2003
ISBN# 0-688-15143-4 (HB)
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