A young boy and his grandmother share all sorts of adventures on her farm with her cat, Boot, and her mysterious cow, Georgie Lee.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 30, 2002
ISBN# 0-688-17940-1 (HB)
When an outbreak of the flu comes to Vermont in 1918, eleven-year-old Margaret aspires to be a doctor just like her papa.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 30, 2002
ISBN# 0-06-029319-5 (PB, HB)
Fourteen-year-old Andy visits the Alaskan wilderness site of his archaeologist father’s death and becomes stranded on Admiralty Island.
2004-2005 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 16, 2002
ISBN# 0-688-17473-6 (PB, HB)
A clever cat’s heroism helps two twelve-year-old boys become friends after their families, one of whom is in a witness-protection program, move to neighboring houses.
2004-2005 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Dutton
Copyright April 15, 2002
ISBN# 0-525-46829-3 (PB, HB)
In 1878, eleven-year-old Annabel and her parents survive a year of adventure that includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group of Michigan lumbermen.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Knopf
Copyright April 9, 2002
ISBN# 0-375-81429-9 (PB, HB)
Together with Gramps, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life’s challenges.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 1, 2002
ISBN# 0-06-029531-7 (PB, HB)
The author describes the experiences with a family of roadrunners that came to live near her house.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Millbrook
Copyright March 31, 2002
ISBN# 0-7613-1250-1 (PB)
To relieve the hunger in Germany in 1948, pilots began airlifting supplies including candy and gum for the children, which gave them a reason to hope for a better life.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Sleeping Bear Press
Copyright March 31, 2002
ISBN# 1-58536-069-4 (HB)