When ten-year-old Emily learns that her mother has cancer, the two of them begin a ritual that will help prepare Emily for what is to come and to remember her mother long after she is gone.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Delacorte
Copyright May 4, 1999
ISBN# 0-385-32606-8 (HB)
Chang cannot talk, at least not to people. The only sounds he can make are the squawks and caws of the cormorants that his father trains for fishing. Chang loves birds, and he is thrilled when he is finally old enough to join his father on important fishing trips.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by FSG
Copyright April 30, 1999
ISBN# 0-374-30723-7 (PB, HB)
With clear, concise text and dramatic full-color photographs, award-winning Seymour Simon investigates one of nature’s most powerful phenomena. Learn about some of the worst disasters in history by some enormous twisters.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Morrow
Copyright April 28, 1999
ISBN# 0-688-14646-5 (PB, HB)
Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare’s world—his life in Elizabethan times, the theatre world, and the famous Globe.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 7, 1999
ISBN# 006-027820-X (PB, HB)
The magnificent faces of Mount Rushmore have captured the grandeur of the creator’s vision of the world’s most colossal stone carving. The author’s breathtaking illustrations and compelling narrative focus on four outstanding American presidents.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright March 31, 1999
ISBN# 0-590-22573-1 (PB, HB)
The story of a 110 year-old farm in Wisconsin is told in photos and anecdotes about the three generations of Petersons who have owned and farmed the land.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Boyds Mills
Copyright March 31, 1999
ISBN# 1-56397-710-9 (HB)
In the spring of 1863, a thirteen-year-old boy leaves his home on a farm in northeastern Tennessee with his father, who has joined the confederate army. This is a moving personal narrative in the form of a journal.
2001-2002 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Houghton
Copyright March 25, 1999
ISBN# 0-395-91208-3 (PB, HB)
When she moves into Emily Dickinson’s bedroom, Emmaline, the mouse, discovers her own propensity for poetry.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by FSG
Copyright March 25, 1999
ISBN# 0-374-35083-3 (PB, HB)