In her diary, thirteen year-old Hattie chronicles her family’s arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. This is number four of the Dear America series.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright February 28, 1997
ISBN# 0-590-22651-7 (PB)
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place in it.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harper Collins
Copyright September 11, 1998
ISBN# 0-06-026993-6 (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)
Twelve-year-old Dean Matthews receives a journal as a birthday present from his mother and records the events of the following year. At first, he is very unhappy about having to do this, but he learns valuable lessons along the way.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Putnam
Copyright October 13, 1997
ISBN# 0-399-23130-7 (PB, HB)
In 1920 in the mountains of North Carolina, fourteen-year-old Jim Houston sees his hopes of continuing his education fade when his mother becomes seriously ill and his logger father must deal with underhanded businessmen.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harcourt Brace
Copyright April 15, 1997
ISBN# 0-15-201509-4 (HB)
Growing up in Louisiana in the 1950’s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings with her stern but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Henry Holt
Copyright May 15, 1998
ISBN# 0-8050-5251-8 (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)
In 1946, while her emotionally distant father is in occupied Japan, a twelve-year-old girl spends a year with her mother’s relatives in a Tlingit Indian village in Alaska and begins to love and respect her heritage as she confronts the secret of her mother’s disappearance.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright September 1, 1997
ISBN# 0-590-36087-6 (PB)
