2010
All the Lovely Bad Ones
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."
Author * Book
Poor farms *
Illinois poor house history
Ilinois Poor Farm B&B *
Wisconsin Poorfarm Cemetary
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
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.
Author
Crossing the Wire
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.
Author * Book1 * Book 2
Illegal Immigration:
1*2*3*4*5
Baboquivari Peak, Arizona
1*2*3
Guanajuato, Mexico
1 * 2Amigos de las Americas
Dragon Slippers
Orphaned after a fever epidemic,
Creel befriends a dragon and
unknowingly inherits an object that
can either save or destroy her
kingdom.
Author * Book
Elephant Run
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.
Author * Book video * Curriculum
Burma – WW II:
1*2
Burma:
1*2
Burmese Elephants
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
A quirky and utterly logical seventhgrade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus
discovers some interesting results when
she gets involved in the messy everyday
problems of her peers.
Author
(includes anti-bullying curriculum)
First Light
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.
Greenland and Climate
change:
1*2
Freedom Walkers
Dramatic overview of how
the 381-day resistance to
segregated buses spurred the
civil rights movement.
Author1 * Author2 *
Author PDF
Educator’s guide *
Timeline
Montgomery Bus Boycott *
MBB2 *
Montgomery Bus Boycott Timeline
Home of the Brave
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted
by many strange things while staying
with his aunt in Minneapolis, but
finds comfort in the company of a
cow and her owner.
Author1 * Author2 *
Book * Book Video
Sudan Conflict, history *
Sudan Conflict, Darfur
Darfur Refugee Camps *
Sudan Conflict, pictures
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
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.
Author * Book * Book video
Kimchi & Calamari
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.
Author *
Kimchi
Calamari
1*2*3
Adoption:
1*2
The Naked Mole-Rat Letters
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.
Author *
Book Quiz
Naked Mole Rats *
RatCam
Shark Girl
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.
Author *
Book1 * Book2
Ichthyology
Shooting the Moon
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.
Author * Book
Images of Vietnam War:
1*2*3
Vietnam War history:
1*2
Vietnam Memorial *
Photography
A Small White Scar
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.
Author * Book * Book2
Quiz * Colorado Rodeo Association
Down syndrome:
1*2
Someone Named Eva
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.
Author1 * Author2
Lidice (contains disturbing images):
1*2*3
Lidice Memorial *
Stolen children
Lebensborn children
1*2*3*4
Heuaktion * Ravensbrück Concentration Camp *
Crest Hill Illinois – Lidice memorial
Creating the “Master Race”
The Mozart Question
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.
Author * Book
Concentration camp orchestras *
Auschwitz Concentration Camp –
basic facts
Holocaust, Music:
1*2*3
The Thing About Georgie
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.
Author * Author note *
Author interview
Book *
Reading guide
Dwarfism:
1*2*3*4
The Wednesday Wars
During 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.
1*2*3*4
1960s:
1 * 2 * 3 60’s Quiz *
NY Yankees History
Shakespeare
1*2*3*4
The White Giraffe
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.
Author1 * Author2
Educator’s guide *
Literature circle guide *
White Giraffes
Resources
Rebecca Caudill’s Young Readers Book Award. September 4,
2009. http://www.rcyrba.org
Perma-Bound. October 5, 2009. http://perma-bound.com