I read Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, the 1998 Newbery Award winner, in my ongoing project to read all of the Newbery books.
Set in the 1930’s during the great depression in the dust bowl of Oklahoma, Out of the Dust is told as a diary in free verse form, a style of writing [...]
The Well by Mildred D. Taylor is a prequel to Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (which I haven’t read since I was little but have hopes of maybe getting to this month). Set in Mississippi in 1910, slavery is still fresh in everybody’s mind. David’s father has worked hard and their family owns 400 [...]
Ruby Bridges is an icon of the civil rights movement. And it is in Through My Eyes that we are given a first hand account of what it was like to be a small 6 year old black girl in New Orleans, Louisiana who sets the stage for school integration.
In 1954, the year that Ruby [...]
Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff, a 1998 Newbery Honor, is set on the American home front during World War II and gives a snapshot of what many dealt with why their family members were on the front lines. Every year, Lily spends her the summer in Rockaway, at her families summer house by the [...]
I was really intrigued with the premise of Quake by Joe Cottonwood, which is a middle grade fiction book about the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. Plus, I needed a Q title for the A-Z title challenge. My plan was to read Q Road but I was unable to track a copy down. So Quake it [...]
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