In 1911, Yale professor Hiram Bingham, on a trek to find a rumored lost city of the Incas, discovers another a lost Incan city with the help of a Peruvian boy. What he stumbled onto was even more beautiful and amazing.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Philomel
Copyright June 2, 2003
ISBN# 0-399-23302-4 (HB)
Discusses the life and the work of impressionist painter Mary Cassat, as told from a child’s point of view.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Grosset & Dunlap
Copyright April 14, 2003
ISBN# 0-448-43153-X (PB, HB)
The story of Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoo’s animal nursery in 1944 and its first woman zookeeper. Her home was pretty much a zoo too for seriously ill animals.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Atheneum
Copyright February 28, 2003
ISBN# 0-689-84221-X (HB)
Maxims, idioms, parental proverbs and witticisms are explained for children and the illustrations take in a child’s point of view when hearing them.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Sleeping Bear
Copyright March 31, 2003
ISBN# 1-58536-106-2 (HB)
An overview of the childhood antics and adult genius of one of America’s most gifted writers.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright February 17, 2003
ISBN# 0-06-028400-5 (HB)
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)
Twin baby brothers are abandoned on their uncle’s doorstep in early twentieth-century England with nothing but a silver-stringed dulcimer.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright June 3, 2003
ISBN# 0-06623609-6 (PB, HB)
During the summer before fifth grade, Suzanne, a daydreaming loner who likes to fish and walk through the woods, acquires a canine companion. It is based on Ms. Staple’s childhood in PA.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Copyright September 8, 2003
ISBN# 0-374-32779-3 (PB, HB)