An Asian cook and a Chinese New Year celebration help a ten-year-old girl at a stagecoach station regain her confidence after smallpox scars her face.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright November 30, 2001
ISBN# 0-06-029325-X (PB, HB)
In Galveston, Texas, a teenage girl and boy work together to save themselves and others from the terrible hurricane of 1900, still the largest natural disaster in American history.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Walker
Copyright October 1, 2001
ISBN# 0-8027-8787-8 (PB, HB)
Teenage Eliza McCully defies the townspeople and her father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her at a time when Chinese immigrants are shunned.
2003-2004 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Atheneum
Copyright October 31, 2001
ISBN# 0-689-84133-7 (PB, HB)
A class of sixth-graders tries to save a mistreated elephant from being sold to a hunting park.
2003-2004 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Minstrel
Copyright October 31, 2001
ISBN# 0-671-03422-7 (PB, HB)
In 1895, a former sea captain attempts to be the first to sail around the world in his rebuilt sloop.
2003-2004 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Orchard
Copyright October 31, 2001
ISBN# 0-439-29305-7 (HB)
Making friends with a mentally retarded boy helps Kate learn that God puts everyone here on earth for a reason.
2003-2004 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Warner Books & Little Brown
Copyright October 16, 2001
ISBN# 0-316-23337-4 (PB, HB)
Laura leaves her strict parents’ Georgia plantation to spend the summer with her Quaker relatives and discovers their home is a stop on the Underground Railroad.
2003-2004 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Holiday House
Copyright October 1, 2001
ISBN# 0-8234-1543-0 (HB)
In 1806, orphaned Abigail and her brother Seth find a home with a young widow, and they help her find a way to support them all.
2003-2004 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Simon & Schuster
Copyright October 1, 2001
ISBN# 0-689-83832-8 (PB, HB)
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