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2010
All the Lovely Bad Ones
Author * BookPoor farms * Illinois poor house historyIlinois Poor Farm B&B * Wisconsin Poorfarm Cemetary
While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace."
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Author
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.
Crossing the Wire
Author * Book1 * Book 2Illegal Immigration:1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 Baboquivari Peak, Arizona1 * 2 * 3Guanajuato, Mexico1 * 2Amigos de las Americas
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
Dragon Slippers
Author * Book
Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.
Elephant Run
Author * Book video * CurriculumBurma – WW II:1 * 2 Burma:1 * 2 Burmese Elephants
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
Author (includes anti-bullying curriculum)
A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers.
First Light
Greenland and Climate change:1 * 2
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
Freedom Walkers
Author1 * Author2 * Author PDFEducator’s guide * TimelineMontgomery Bus Boycott * MBB2 * Montgomery Bus Boycott Timeline
Dramatic overview of how the 381-day resistance to segregated buses spurred the civil rights movement.
Home of the Brave
Author1 * Author2 * Book * Book VideoSudan Conflict, history * Sudan Conflict, DarfurDarfur Refugee Camps * Sudan Conflict, pictures
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things while staying withhis aunt in Minneapolis, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Author * Book * Book video
Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that supposedly contains the meaning of life.
Kimchi & Calamari
Author * Kimchi Calamari 1 * 2 * 3Adoption:1 * 2
Adopted from Korea by Italian parents, fourteen-year-old Joseph Calderaro begins to make important self-discoveries about race and family after his social studies teacher assigns an essay on cultural heritage and tracing the past.
The Naked Mole-Rat Letters
Author * Book QuizNaked Mole Rats * RatCam
When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated emails to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship.
Shark Girl
Author * Book1 * Book2
Ichthyology
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss.
Shooting the Moon
Author * BookImages of Vietnam War:1 * 2 * 3Vietnam War history:1 * 2Vietnam Memorial * Photography
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.
A Small White Scar
Author * Book * Book2Quiz * Colorado Rodeo AssociationDown syndrome:1 * 2
Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon leaves his family and begins life as a cowboy, but his mentally retarded twin brother follows him and joins the journey.
Someone Named Eva
Author1 * Author2Lidice (contains disturbing images):1 * 2 * 3Lidice Memorial * Stolen childrenLebensborn children1 * 2 * 3 * 4Heuaktion * Ravensbrück Concentration Camp * Crest Hill Illinois – Lidice memorialCreating the “Master Race”
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
The Mozart Effect
Author * BookConcentration camp orchestras * Auschwitz Concentration Camp – basic factsHolocaust, Music:1 * 2 * 3
A young journalist goes to Venice, Italy, to interview a famous violinist, who tells the story of his parents' incarceration by the Nazis, and explains why they can no longer listen to the music of Mozart.
The Thing About Georgie
Author * Author note * Author interviewBook * Reading guideDwarfism:1 * 2 * 3 * 4
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.
1 * 2 * 3 * 41960s:1 * 2 * 3 60’s Quiz * NY Yankees HistoryShakespeare1 * 2 * 3 * 4
The Wednesday WarsDuring the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
The White Giraffe
Author1 * Author2 Educator’s guide * Literature circle guide * White Giraffes
After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
Resources
Rebecca Caudill’s Young Readers Book Award. September 4, 2009. http://www.rcyrba.org
Perma-Bound. October 5, 2009. http://perma-bound.com
