Virtual Portrait of a Story Newbery Award Books. Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake. He...

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Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake. He wants to lift the curse

from his family.

Stanley is stuck at Camp Green Lake digging

holes. Digging the holes is not easy and the other kids there don’t like him.

While digging Stanley finds a strange item with the initials KB on it. He thinks this is connected

to the bandit Kissin’ Kate Barlow and the curse on

his family.

Stanley’s only friend runs away. He

chases after him into the desert.

While in the desert they learn where to dig for the treasure.

Stanley and his friend Zero lift the curse by

finding the treasure and helping each other.

Stanley and Zero return to their families. Camp

Green Lake’s owners are arrested.

Stanley understands his family’s past and is proud of his connection to his

great great-grandfather.

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The Camp Green Lake officials accuse Stanley of stealing. But, they are soon

investigated for running a phony

camp.

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Brian is on his way to see his father. He wants to tell him a secret he knows about his mother.

Plane crashes in Alaskan wilderness. Brian must learn to survive on his own.

Several tests of survival to find food and shelter.

Drops Hatchet into the lake.

Uses his hatchet to cut into the plane to get survival kit.

Emergency transmitter from survival kit sends signal to plane nearby.

Brian has a new strong appreciation for nature and is much more self-reliant.


Billie Jo and her family struggle to survive the dust storms that ruin

their farm.

Billie Jo’s mother dies while trying to give

birth, the dust storms are ruining the land and Billie Jo and her father struggle to get along.

A terrible accident burns Billie Jo’s mother and

Billie Jo’s hands, preventing her from

playing the piano.

Billie Jo’s father is showing signs of

skin cancer on his face.

Billie Jo returns to her father after her talk with the man on the train left the picture of his family

in exchange for the biscuits..

Billie Jo, her father and her father’s new wife

help each other to survive the dust storms.

Billie Jo forgives herself and her father. She begins

to heal on the inside.


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Billie Jo leaves home with only a few

biscuits for food.

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Jonas is assigned to be the Receiver of

Memories.

He learns the truth of how his community is run and struggles to

decide if he wants to live in a community with such restrictive rules.

The Giver transmits memories of pleasure and pain to Jonas. He

realizes how boring life is for the community

without these memories.

Jonas learns that Gabriel will be

“released.”.

Jonas runs away with Gabriel.

Jonas and Gabriel find a new community.

Jonas rejects the community’s way of life and risks his own life for what he believes is right.

He remains true to his convictions.


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The Giver tells Jonas about his daughter who was to be the Receiver, but could

not handle it.

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Meg and her brother are told by an unusual visitor that they need to rescue

their father who disappeared months earlier..

Meg wants her father back, but she will have to travel through time and face IT to get him

back.

Mrs Whatsit shows the children the Dark Thing and they feel its harsh

impact.

Meg, Charles and Calvin confront the Man with Red Eyes

on Camazotz. Charles Wallace eats

the food and appears controlled

by IT

Aunt Beast and the Mrs W’s prepare Meg to

defeat IT. She uses the power of love to free

Charles Wallace.

Meg, Charles Wallace, their father and Calvin

return home.

Meg accepts that only she can save Charles

Wallace because she has the strongest connection

to him.


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Using the special glasses from Mrs

Who, Meg is able to get into the prison

cell holding her father.

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Sal’s mother left the family so she sets out on

a trip with her grandparents to find her.

Sal’s best friend’s mother has also left

their family mysteriously. The two

want their families back the way they were.

Phoebe receives a visit from a strange boy. Sal’s grandmother is bitten by a snake and must stay in

the hospital.

Phoebe goes to the police to get

answers about her mother. Sal drives her grandfather’s car the rest of the

trip to the scene of the accident.

Phoebe’s family adjusts to the new information

about her mother’s past. Sal listens to her father explain the connection

their neighbor, Margaret.

Sal, her father and grandfather return to

live on the farm.

Sal finally accepts that her mother is not coming

home and learns that people deal with loss in

different ways.


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Phoebe’s mother explains the

connection to the stranger. Sal talks

with the police officer about the night of the bus

accident.

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The Logan family want to maintain ownership

of their land.

The Logans live during a time of violent racial

prejudice. Cassie struggles to deal with

the racism she encounters each day.

The kids dig a ditch in the road so the white

students’ bus will drive into it. Cassie is

humiliated in public with racial insults that she doesn’t understand.

Black families agree to boycott the

Wallace store in response to the

Wallace boys attack on local black family.

The cotton field is set on fire by Papa to distract

the lynch mob.

Black and white families must work together to

put out the fire. The Logan retain

ownership of their land.

Cassie learns that racism is something to fight when possible and

endure when necessary..


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Papa’s leg in broken in an attack. Uncle

Hammer sells his car to help pay mortage on the farm. A lynch mob comes for TJ.

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Julie wants to find her pen pal in San Francisco

and be free to decide her future for herself.

She does not want to marry the boy arranged

for her by her tribe.

Without any food, she must join a wolf pack to

survive the Alaskan wilderness.

The wolves are being hunted. Julie

must abandon them as she draws

attention to them.

Julie tries to returns to her father and his new American wife to live

with them.

Kapu is shot by hunters from a plane.

Julie accepts the loss of her tribal customs and retains her skills and

knowledge even if she’s not using the skills

everyday..


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She finds her long lost father who has

adopted a more modern way of life.

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Sam Gribley wants a more adventurous life;

one with a connection to nature.

People do not feel that a young boy should be

living on his own in the forest.

Sam captures Frightful and trains her.

People are looking for the “wild boy

living in the forest.” Sam meets a man who he thinks is a

bandit.

Sam’s father brings the family to the forest to build a home for all of

them.

Sam agrees to compromise his

principles and allow the family to build a house

in the forest.

Sam finds connections not nature but also with

many people and successfully makes the

forest his home.


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Sam makes a deal with Matt to not

reveal his location in the newspaper article he wrote

about him.

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Annemarie’s family takes in Ellen to hide her from

the Nazis.

German soldiers occupy their town and are

searching for anyone hiding Jews.

Ellen is questioned by the soldiers why her hair is

not blonde like Annemarie and Kirsti.

The soldiers demand to see

inside the coffin. They are told the woman died of

typhus and they are afraid of being

infected.

Fishermen in The Resistance make special compartments in their boats to ferry Jews to

safety in Sweden .

The war ends and families return to

Copenhagen. Annemarie wears Ellen’s Star of David necklace while awaiting her return.

Annemarie learns (with the help of Uncle Henrik)

that bravery is not necessarily about facing

everything at once...


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Annemarie must deliver the scarf to Henrik to prevent

the dogs from smelling the humans

on the boat.

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