A Single Shard is published by Clarion books and written for children from ten to twelve years old. A Historical fiction novel, A Single Shard, is the 2002 Newbery Medal Award winner. Sometimes you can get a hint of a story by the title. At first glance the title threw me off because it did [ Read More ]
Newbery Medal winner of 2003, Crispin The Cross of Lead is an action packed historical novel set in the 1380′s of England’s peasant revolt. The protagonist is a thirteen year old peasant boy known only as “Asta’s Son” (Asta being the boys mother) because he has never been called by his own name. In fact [ Read More ]
Title: Out of the DustAuthor: Karen HesseReading age: 8 to 12 Out of the Dust is a riveting, evocative and mournful story of the Great Depression. Karen Hesse’s YA novel narrows the focus of the catastrophic Dust Bowl in the Southwest during the 1930′s to a single family living in Oklahoma. Through a series of [ Read More ]
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski is one of the classic Newbery Medal Winners. Awarded the medal in 1946, it speaks of a time that was more familiar and current than today. Today this rich novel opens the window into a time few can remember. This is one of many books Lenski wrote with an emphasis [ Read More ]
