 | 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. ...
 |  | 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...
|  | 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? ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | A Taste of Colored Water
Release Date: January 8, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up Some Online Copy ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Boston Jane: An Adventure
Release Date: January 26, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | 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...
|  | Rodzina
Publication Date: March 20, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski is the new face in Karen Cushman’s gallery of unforgettable heroines. One of a group of orphans, 12-year-old Rodzina boards a train on a cold day in March 1881. She’s reluctant to leave Chicago, the only home she can remember, and she knows there’s no substitute for the family she has lost. She expects to be adopted and turned into a slave—or worse, not to be adopted at all.As the train rattles westward, Rodzina unwittingly begins to develop attachment...
|  | Freedom Stone
Release Date: January 6, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Lillie's papa believed in freedom-for him, his family, and all the slaves on the Greenfog plantation. So when the Confederate Army promised freedom to the family of every slave who served in the Civil War-whether they came home or not-Lillie's papa decided he had to take the chance. But when Lillie's family got the news that her papa was killed, they weren't freed. The army claimed that Lillie's papa was a thief. Lillie knew that couldn't be true! Even worse, the master started making plans to sell off Lillie's little...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Lighthouse Christmas
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|  | Dream Something Big
Release Date: August 18, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Between 1921 and 1955, Italian immigrant Simon Rodia transformed broken glass, seashells, pottery, and a dream to "do something big" into a U.S. National Landmark. Readers watch the towers rise from his little plot of land in Watts, California, through the eyes of a fictional girl as she grows and raises her own children. Chronicled in stunningly detailed collage that mimics Rodia's found-object art, this thirty-four-year journey becomes a mesmerizing testament to perseverance and possibility. A final, innovative "bui...
|  | Little Lion #2 (The Treasure Chest)
Release Date: January 24, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | 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...
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