 | Boom Town
Publication Date: March 1, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up "Bored by cabin life in the sparse settlement, Amanda figures out how to bake a gooseberry pie in the family's crude wood stove. Soon the prospectors are paying for her pies, and her business success spills over onto other folks, who decide to settle there.... [An] entertaining lesson in history and human nature." - The Horn Book ...
 |  | Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
Release Date: September 30, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and upThis story begins with shoes. This story is all for true. This story walks. And walks. And walks. To the blues.Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming together to help one another get where they needed to go. Some started taxis, some rode bikes, but they all walked and walked.With dogged feet. With dog-tired feet. With boycott feet. With boycott blues. And, after 382 days of walk...
|  | My Heart Will Not Sit Down
Release Date: January 10, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up When Kedi hears about America's Great Depression from her teacher, her heart will not sit down. Men and women are unable to find work. Children are going hungry. In her teacher's village of New York City, people are starving because they do not have money to buy food. But can one small girl in Africa's Cameroon like Kedi make a difference all the way across the great salt river in America?Inspired by true events, Mara Rockliff's gorgeous and accessible text matched with Ann Tanksley's vibrant and warm illustrations b...
|  | Children of the Fire
Release Date: January 1, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up Eleven-year-old Hallelujah is fascinated by the fires burning all over the city of Chicago. Little does she realize that her life will be changed forever by the flames that burn with such bright fascination for her.The year is 1871 and this event will later be called the Great Chicago Fire. Hallelujah and her newfound friend Elizabeth are as different as night and day; but their shared solace will bind them as friends forever, as a major American city starts to rebuild itself. ...
|  | Home of the Brave
Publication Date: April 30, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up In dreamlike sequences, a man symbolically confronts the trauma of his family’s incarceration in the Japanese internment camps during World War II. This infamous event is made emotionally clear through his meeting a group of children all with strange name tags pinned to their coats. The man feels the helplessness of the children. Finally, desperately he releases the name tags like birds into the air to find their way home with the hope for a time when Americans will be seen as one people—not judged, mist...
|  | Jim Ugly
Release Date: May 27, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upA one-man dog Part wolf and fiercely independent, Jim Ugly is a dog who answers to only one person. Unfortunately, that man -- Sam Bannock -- has disappeared. Rumor has it that Sam is dead, but to his son, Jake, something about that doesn't sound quite right. So Jake and Jim Ugly embark on a wild journey into the frontier West, where they find themselves pursued by a pretty lady, a theater troupe, and one very ornery yellow-legged man. And they all want to know one thing: Where is Sam Bannock?...
|  | The Year Of Miss Agnes
Release Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up It's 1948 and ten-year-old Fred has just watched her teacher leave -- another in a long line of teachers who have left the village because the smell of fish was too strong, the way of life too hard. Will another teacher come to the small Athabascan village on the Koyukuk River to teach Fred and her friends in the one-room schoolhouse? Will she stay, or will she hate the smell of fish, too?Fred doesn't know what to make of Miss Agnes Sutterfield. She sure is a strange one. No other teacher throws away old textbooks and reads Greek myths a...
|  | R My Name Is Rachel
Release Date: July 24, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Rachel, Cassie, and Joey live in the city with their Pop, until Pop's search for work lands the family on a run down farm. Dreamy Rachel loves to read, and doesn't know much about the country. Times are hard there, too—the school and library are closed. When Pop gets work near Canada, he has to leave the children on the farm alone. For two months! But Rachel's the oldest, and she'll make sure they're all right. Somehow.From the Hardcover edition. ...
|  | A Mice Way to Learn About Government: A Curriculum Guide
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up A teacher curriculum guide for the "Mice Way To Learn About Government" series on the three branches of government from VSP Books, which are Woodrow, the White House Mouse; House Mouse, Senate Mouse and Marshall, the Courthouse Mouse. ...
|  | Little Lion #2 (The Treasure Chest)
Release Date: January 24, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch
Release Date: April 29, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up One rainy night in 1888, a stray dog wandered into the U.S. Post Office in Albany, New York. Workers found him the next morning asleep on a pile of mail pouches. The dog seemed to like the post office and the smell of the mailbags and the men’s wool uniforms. When no one came to claim him, they named him Owney and made him their pet. However, Owney’s loyalty and sense of adventure soon made it clear he wasn’t just an average mutt. Over the course of nine years, Owney guarded the mail—not onl...
|  | The Teacher's Funeral : A Comedy in Three Parts
Release Date: October 7, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up "If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," begins Richard Peck's latest novel, a book full of his signature wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he's raring to leave his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they'll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam. No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of scho...
|  | Grasshopper Summer
Release Date: May 1, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up In 1874, eleven-year-old Sam White and his family are moving from Kentucky to the Dakota Territory. These hardy pioneers know it will be hard work, but they don't expect the devastating plague that comes like an unstoppable force to sweep away all their hopes for the future. They will cope. But they will never forget this grasshopper summer. ...
|  | An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley
Publication Date: November 1, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up On the night of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, calls for her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley. But the woman is mistakenly kept from her side by guards who were unaware of Mary Todd Lincoln’s close friendship with the black seamstress. With vivid detail and emotional power, Ann Rinaldi delves into the childhoods of two fascinating women who became devoted friends amid the turbulent times of the Lincoln administration.&...
|  | The Blue and the Gray
Publication Date: May 2001| Age Level: 6 and up Two young friends, one black and one white, explore the grassy fields near the construction site of their new homes. In 1862, this area was a Civil War battleground, and one boy¹s father helps them remember the freedom that was won so long ago. ...
|  | A Taste of Colored Water
Release Date: January 8, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up Some Online Copy ...
|  | Julius! Wild West Bananza
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Lighthouse Christmas
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|  | Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Hank the Cowdog #6)
Release Date: August 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up A chicken killer is loose on the ranch. In this story, Loper has laid down the law to Hank and Drover: the chicken killing must stop or else. (Gulp.) It's up to the Head of Ranch Security to interrogate every possible suspect, even old friends. Could Drover be the terrible chicken killer? ...
|  | Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams (I Can Read Book 4)
Release Date: August 2, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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