 | Journey to Nowhere
Release Date: November 10, 1998| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up In the spring of 1815, Remembrance "Mem" Nye and her family set off in a covered wagon from their farm in Connecticut to the western New York wilderness. Mem and her mother see it as a journey to nowhere since there won't be any houses or neighbors, just endless forest. Their journey is filled with the uncertain danger of wild animals, raging storms, and cruel strangers. When Mem is unexpectedly separated from her family, she must face every danger alone while hoping to find her family again. ...
 |  | Pioneer Cat (Stepping Stone,paper)
Release Date: October 12, 1988| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Liberty Lee's Tail of Independence
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|  | 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. ...
|  | 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? ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 (Dear America)
Publication Date: September 1, 1996| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Rose's Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression
Publication Date: March 1, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Little Lion #2 (The Treasure Chest)
Release Date: January 24, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Boston Jane: An Adventure
Release Date: January 26, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 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...
|  | Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
Release Date: January 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up "Oh, I'm singing the bus-rider blues, the Alabamy bus-rider blues. I got me a feeling, deep down inside, It ain't never ever gonna be the same."During the Alabama bus boycott, six months after Rosa Parks made her famous bus protest, Alfa Merryfield and his family struggle to pay the rent. But someone keeps stealing their rent money -- and now someone is accusing them of stealing!With only a few days left before rent is due, Alfa and his sister, Zinnia, know they don't have much time. To solve this mystery, they must "walk the walk and ta...
|  | Changes For Kaya (American Girl (Quality))
Release Date: September 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic
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