Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel, by Leslie Connor, illustrated by Mary Azarian, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA 2004
This is the fictional story of an immigrant woman who chose to take a shovel with her to America in 1856, instead of a fancy clock or figurine, and found many uses for it during the rest of her life full of blessings and of challenges. The woodcut illustrations are by Mary Azarian who also illustrated Caledcott medal winner Snowflake Bentley.
Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land; Women's Lives in Colonial America, by Brandon Marie Miller, Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis, MN, 2003
A well documented, historical look at the daily lives of Colonial period women from all walks of life, including the European immigrants, the Native Americans and the slaves; what they did, what they wore, how they were treated, and what they protested. It is supplemented with an extensive bibliograpy and suggested further readings and websites.
Molly's Family by Nancy Garden, pictures by Sharon Wooding, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY, 2004
When Molly draws a picture of her family for Open School Night, one of her classmates makes her feel bad because he says it isn't a family because she can't have two mothers, but after thinking about it she comes to realize that even if her family is different it is still a happy family.
The Lucky Lottery by Ron Roy, A Stepping Stone Book, Random House, New York, NY,2000
Some culprit stole Lucky's winning lottery ticket but, with his friends, Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose helping, the mystery is solved and the thief apprehended just in time.
Top Secret; A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing by Paul B. Janeczko, illustrated by Jenna LaReau, Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA 2004
This is an elementary introduction to writing in ways that other people cannot understand unless they are in on the techniques used in creating the code and have the key to decode it. These methods are mostly simple enough for school children to actually learn to use, though their parents may want to read the book and learn a bit of cryptography too in self defense.
The Civil Rights Movement in America by Elaine Landau, Children's Press, Scholastic Inc., New York, 2003
A history of race relations in America focusing primarily on the period from 1954 to 1968 when the Civil Rights movement was most active. Illustrated mainly with black and white photographs from that period, it also has a good list of further readings.
Recycle Every Day written and illustrated by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, Marshall Cavendish, New York, 2003
When Minna has a school asignment to make a poster about recycling her entire family spends the week practicing various kinds of recycling and sugesting ideas for her poster. The ideas in this "story book" are all about real ways to achieve a reduction in waste and refuse generation through recycling.
Remember; The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 2004
A history book for children filled with photographs intended to, in the authors words, "take you on a journey through a time in American life when there was as much hate as there was love; as much anger as there was hope; as many heros as cowards." Toni Morrison is a winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in fiction and in 1993 she became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
You Read to Me, I'll read to You; Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together (in which wolves are tamed, trolls are transformed, and peas are triumphant) by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Michael Emberley,Megan Tingley Books, Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY, 2004
This is an easy to read book of rhyming, funny variants on eight of the most popular fairy tales with stanzas on each side of the page intended to be read in alternation by the child and parent.
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