Up and Down the River: Boat Poems -- by Claudia Lewis (Author) (Book - Child)
"Thirteen poems that characterize the different kinds of boats that said down a busy river." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler -- by E.L. Konigsburg (Author) (Book - Child)
"After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Conrad's War -- by Andrew Davies (Author) (Book - Child)
"Currently fascinated with wars, army, killing, and guns, Conrad becomes convinced that through dreams or time warp he is experiencing action in a past war." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Toothpaste Millionaire -- by Jean Merrill (Author) (Book - Child)
"Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toothpaste. Betting he can make a gallon of his own for the same price as one tube from the store, Rufus...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe -- by C.S. Lewis (Author) (Book - Child)
"Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Legend Days -- by Jamake Highwater (Author) (Book - Child)
"Abandoned in the wilderness after smallpox devastates her tribe, eleven-year-old Amana acquires from Grandfather Fox a warrior's courage and a hunter's prowess, gifts that sustain her as she watches...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Across Five Aprils -- by Irene Hunt (Author) (Book - Child)
"Narrator Terry Bregy adopts an appropriately boyish tone for his reading of Across Five Aprils By Irene Hunt, A Newbery Honor Book in 1965. Bregy compels readers to hear young Jethro Creighton's...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Jump Ship to Freedom -- by James Collier (Author) (Book - Child)
"In 1787, a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and to find help in cashing the soldier's notes received by his father...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro, 1916-1966 -- by Milton Meltzer (Author) (Book - Child)
"The concept of their own words is what distinguishes this well compiled history of a people." From Choosing Books for Kids
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Devil in Vienna -- by Doris Orgel (Author) (Book - Child)
"In a book that arouses anguish and fury, Orgel writes of Vienna in 1938, as a Jewish girl and a member of the Hitler Youth struggle to maintain their friendship." From Publishers Weekly
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
