Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Sharon Creech


On September 26, 2009, Sharon Creech, author of Walk Two Moons, Bloomability, Love That Dog and more gave this talk at the National Bookfest in Washington, DC. Listen to this great webcast to find out more about this famous author!

Friday, November 6, 2009

American Indians

November is a great time to read some books about American Indians:
  • Arrow over the Door
  • Birchbark House
  • Enemy in the Fort
  • Finding Providence
  • Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow
  •  I Am Regina
  •  Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
  •  Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy
  • Last of the Mohicans
  • Little Runner of the Longhouse
  • Meet Kaya : An American Girl
  • Moon of Two Dark Horses
  • Night of the Full Moon
  • People of the Breaking Day
  • Ransom of Mercy Carter
  • Return to Hawk's Hill
  • Runs With Horses
  • Saturnalia
  • Second Bend in the River
  • Sees Behind Trees
  • Shadow of the Wolf
  • Small Wolf
  • Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving
  • Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
  • Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan
  • Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times
  • Trail of Tears
  • Trouble at Fort la Pointe
  • Weetamoo, Heart of the Pocassets: Massachusetts-Rhode Island, 1653
  • Winter People
  • Wintering
  • Pocahontas and the Strangers
  • Sing Down the Moon
  • Streams to the River, River to the Sea
  • The Sign of the Beaver