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Our Town
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 3.9. Author: Thornton Wilder. Key Award: Pulitzer Prize.
First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wider's most renowned and most frequently performed play.
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Root Cellar, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.2. Author: Janet Lunn.
Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.
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Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.7. Author: E.L. Konigsburg.
Amedeo Kaplan dreams of discovering something - some treasure no one realizes is there until he finds it. And he would like to discover a true friend to share this with.
Improbably, he finds the friend in aloof, edgy William Wilcox. And even more improbably, he finds his treasure among the memorabilia in the house of his eccentric neighbor, Mrs. Zender.
But Amedeo and William find more than treasure - they find a story that links a sketch, a young boy's life, an old man's reminiscence, and a painful secret dating back to the outrages of Nazi Germany. And they discover unexpected truths about art, friendship, history, heroism, and the mysteries of the human heart.
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Midwife's Apprentice, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.0. Author: Karen Cushman. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
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White Stag, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.6. Author: Kate Seredy. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home. They follow a mythic White Stag to a promised land and suffer hardships and face battles. It is a mythical account of Attila the Hun.
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Single Shard, A
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.6. Author: Linda Sue Park. Key Award: Newbery Award.
Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean potters’ village. When he accidentally breaks a pot, he must work for the master to pay for the damage by setting off on a difficult and dangerous journey that will change his life forever. This is a beautifully written book with wonderful imagery.
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Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-1832
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Interest: Grades: 4-8. Reading Level: 6.7. Author: Joan W Blos. Key Awards: Newbery Medal. National Book Award.
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
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Lincoln: A Photobiography
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 7.7. Author: Russell Freedman. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
A description of the boyhood, marriage, and young professional life of Abraham Lincoln includes his presidential years and also reflects on the latest scholarly thoughts about our Civil War president.
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Pagan's Crusade
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Interest: Grades 6-8. Reading Levels: 3.5-3.7. Author: Catherine Jinks.
The setting is during the Middle Ages around the time of the Crusades. Down on his luck and kicked in the pants one too many times, Pagan Kidrouk arrives on the doorstep of the Templar Knights in medieval Jerusalem, looking for work as a squire.
Expecting only a respite from life on the street and a few square meals, the sarcastic sixteen-year-old finds himself hard at work for Lord Roland de Bram -- a not-so-exciting life of polishing Lord Roland's armor, laundering his garments, and even training to fight by his side.
But as the Infidel Saladin leads his army to Jerusalem, it becomes more and more difficult for Pagan and Lord Roland to decide what action to take or whom to trust. Is a bloody battle for control of the Holy City inevitable?
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Lantern Bearers, The
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Interest: Grades 8-12. Author: Rosemary Sutcliff. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.
Threatened by a tide of invaders, the last of the Roman Auxiliaries are to leave Britain forever. But Aquila, a young legionnaire, chooses to stay behind, in order to join the fight to save his native land. Rosemary Sutcliff is known for her highly acclaimed historical fiction. This book is part of a set of loosely-connected books—it follows The Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch and precedes Sword at Sunset, but the themes in The Lantern Bearers are more complex than in the prior books. Issues of loss, estrangement, and loyalty are more complicated, pulling main characters in conflicting directions. This book is very well written, and an excellent choice for those studying ancient Rome or Britain, slightly more mature readers (ages 14+) and for book club discussions - a readers guide is included under "Technical Specs" section.
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Coram Boy
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 6.3. Mature Content. Author: Jamila Gavin. Key Award: Whitbread Award.
Published to acclaim in the United Kingdom, this stunning historical novel delves into a hidden side of eighteenth-century England: the world of infanticide and child slavery. A host of characters swirls Jamila Gavin's carefully orchestrated plot, in this disturbing, ultimately uplifting novel about sons and fathers, abuse and abandonment, treachery and devotion.
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Trumpeter of Krakow, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 7.1 Author: Eric P. Kelly. Key Award: Newbery Medal.
The Trumpeter of Krakow is a children's historical novel by Eric P. Kelly that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1929. Centered around the historical fire that burned much of Kraków in 1462, The Trumpeter of Krakow tells the fictional story of a family of Ukrainian peasants who flee to Kraków, Poland, in 1461 after their home is burned to the ground by the Cossack-Tartar Bogdan Grozny, commonly known to the Poles as Peter of the Button Face because of the button-shaped pockmark on his cheek.
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Man in the Iron Mask, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 10.2. Author: Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l'action et l'amour." The Man in the Iron Mask concludes the epic adventures of the three Muskateers, as Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies..
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