n Livvy’s mother dies, she must move from New York City to Baltimore, to live with her mother’s college friend—a woman Livvy has never met. Slowly she learns that, even without her mother, she can still learn and laugh and love, and take root in a whole different world.
2000-2001 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Farrar
Copyright March 26, 1998
ISBN# 0-374-37889-4 (PB, HB)
When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the home front.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright March 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-590-09846-2 (HB)
Myanmar is the only country in Asia that still can boast a healthy elephant population. Thousands roam in the wild there, and thousands more work with humans to harvest valuable wood.
2000-2001 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Gulliver Green
Copyright March 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-15-201289-3 (PB, HB)
With clear text and vivid photographs, Seymour Simon sheds light on the many mysteries of Jupiter, the fifth, and largest planet in our solar system. The spacecraft Galileo is and has been sending back information since 1995.
2000-2001 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Morrow
Copyright March 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-688-15620-7 (HB)
Admiral Richard Byrd stayed alone on the continent of Antarctica for almost six months in 1934. He battled the elements, the loneliness, and an illness that nearly killed him, all the while continuing to record his scientific observations.
2000-2001 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Atheneum
Copyright March 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-689-81299-X (PB, HB)
Just before the beginning of World War I, eight- year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.
2000-2001 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Delacorte
Copyright February 9, 1998
ISBN# 0-385-32525-8 (PB, HB)
It’s 1866, and ten-year-old Lucy Grigg’s mother has just died, leaving Lucy alone on the streets of New York City. She learns about a group that sends orphans out west to new homes, and hopefully, a new, loving family—maybe even a little sister.
2000-2001 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Delacorte
Copyright February 8, 1998
ISBN# 0-385-32293-3 (HB)
After his parents help him escape from slavery on a cotton plantation, thirteen-year-old Midnight finds freedom in Mexico and becomes a cowboy on a cattle drive to Kansas.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Henry Holt
Copyright October 15, 1997
ISBN# 0-8050-4714-X (HB)