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 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.