This picture book is for children at reading levels at ages of 5-8. this book is about Horace Pippin who loved to draw pictures for his friends or family members. During World War One he served in the military and would keep drawings that he would do down in the trenches until he got wounded. Thi...
This was on my coworkers "recommendation" stack and it looked good. Then I saw it was all poetry and I thought "aahhhh" I can appreciate poetry but I don't love love it. But this instead was about a regular JOE, who liked to write poems, went to Medical School, but always wrote poems. Sometimes t...
gr 5-8 256 pgsWillowbank, NJ, 1968. 13 year old Lyza is tired of bad news. And 1968 was full of bad news: her mother leaves, young men from her neighborhood die in Vietnam, her best friend's older brother gets drafted, and her grandfather dies. When she finds an envelope full of maps that ...
Delightful story of 3 tween'agers, in the late 1960s, discovering buried pirate treasure. But it is way more than a cute story of kids on a summer adventure, because of so many interesting cultural references (Janis Joplin, peace marches), huge moments in history (the assassination of Martin Luth...