This was a wonderful biography about a young pilgrim girl that traveled from Holland to America on the Mayflower. They colonized Plymouth, but lost most of their friends and loved ones. She has many wonderful experiences including meeting Samoset and Squanto. She describes their celebration with the Indians during their harvest.

This book is written as a journal about loggerhead turtles. This book was actually written right here in South Carolina and published in Mt. Pleasant, SC. It gives many interesting facts, actual pictures, diagrams, and invaluable information.

The relative leave Virginia in their old station wagon They see many things on their trip, but finally make it to their destination. There are lots of hugs and kisses. They have big suppers, crowded sleeping arrangements, work, play, and a lot of enjoyment. When they have to return to Virginia they are sorely missed and they dream about their vacation when they get into their beds.

I loved this book. The story takes place in Copenhagen, 1943. Annemarie and her family help her best friend Ellen’s family to escape Nazi capture, by helping them escape to Sweden.

   Twelve-year-old Pascal couldn’t be happier when his long lost brother shows up at the plantation where Pascal is enslaved and announces that slavery is no longer legal. Now, Pascal must escape with his brother Gideon and make a dangerous trip by foot to northern Georgia, where it is rumored that the Freedmen’s Bureau is giving “forty acres and maybe a mule” to all freed slaves. This moving novel captures the hope and heartache of the Reconstruction period of the Civil War, and is sure to inspire anyone who has ever had a dream.

“Mirette on the High Wire” is about a little girl who lives at a boarding house. A stranger comes to visit and she catches him walking on air. She begs and pleads with the stranger to teach her how to walk on the wire but he refuses. She later learns this stranger is the Great Bellini, master wire-walker, and eventually learns to wire walk herself.

This book by Sclitz is a great book to incorporate into any lesson. Its a great book when you are focusing on point of veiw because it is spoken in many which gives you the plot in many eyes. It is a book from the medieval times and talks about things relevant in those times for instance the singing of the shepardess to the grieving ewe. This book though did not appeal to me at first but as I read on it was very good. This book is also a Newberry Award winner.

This book is a great book for teachers wanting to integrate spanish into thier language. This book entails many poems about the love shared between a mother and her daughter and also a grandmother. I would love to use this book in trying to get my students to use context clues in order to find out the meaning of a word written in spanish as well as forming poems and connecting to a different culture.

This is a story based on a true incident in 1927 with the famous singer Bessie Smith.  Emmarene doesn’t have a ticket to go inside to watch the singer, but she bursts inside the tent to warn everybody that the night riders (KKK) are outside pulling up the tent stakes, and threatening to burn the tent down! Bessie Smith goes out, shouts, and basically chases them away.  The KKK runs off, and Bessie finishes her performance.  Very colorful, nice pictures.

Take Me Out of the Bathtub is a great book of poetry/silly songs that children really enjoy.  I bought this book after hearing about Alan Katz in my Language Arts Ped. class.  My children love to hear the silly songs spoken and sung to the tune of their favorite children’s music.  This would be a great investment for anyone wishing to teach young children.

~Heather Chandler