In 1805, a thirteen-year-old slave and his friend make a dangerous escape from Charleston, South Carolina, and stow away to head north toward freedom.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by McElderry Books
Copyright December 31, 2002
ISBN# 0-689-84719-X (HB)
This book gives a glimpse into the boyhood of the sixteenth president of the United States. It shows him reading at every chance in between the chores and work of a pioneer family.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Simon & Schuster
Copyright December 31, 2002
ISBN# 0-689-82554-4 (PB, HB)
Haunted by grief and her past after losing her family, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own. This was written in response to Sept.11, 2001. Ask Scholastic for a discussion guide for class study.
2004-2005 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright February 28, 2003
ISBN# 0-439-44384-9 (PB, HB)
A dogsled team is the only way to save an Alaskan community from a diphtheria epidemic by transporting medicine across 1,000 miles of snow and ice.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Walker
Copyright December 31, 2002
ISBN# 0-8027-8812-2 (PB, HB)
The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.
2004-2005 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Laurel-Leaf
Copyright November 11, 2002
ISBN# 0-440-40712-5 (PB, HB)
Three Australian children, adrift on a rubber raft, are cast ashore in a land of tiny people.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Odyssey Classics
Copyright October 31, 2002
ISBN# 0-15-216286-0 (PB, HB)
In 1910, through letters to a friend, a young Russian immigrant new to New York, shares her thoughts about an epidemic and a factory fire.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright October 22, 2002
ISBN# 0-06-029840-5 (HB)
Deep in the woods, four normal-sized pups—Leader, Sniffer, Runner, & Thinker—are born. Then comes one last, very small pupages. For him there is no name but Runt and he struggles for acceptance.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Clarion
Copyright October 21, 2002
ISBN# 0-618-21261-2 (PB)
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