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The US Congress for Kids: Over 200 Years of Lawmaking, Deal-Breaking, and Compromising
Gr 5–8—In exploring more than two centuries of American legislation, Reis provides an array of intriguing, challenging, and controversial episodes, but an unwieldy structure and unappealing DIY activities limit the value of this muddled introduction to the U...
Running Out of Night
Gr 4–7—When Zenobia, a fugitive slave, creeps onto the porch of an 1858 Virginia home, the white girl inside schemes to prevent her abusive father from spotting the escapee...
Stories of My Life
Gr 6 Up—A beloved author shares family lore and personal history in a collection of stories wending casually from her parents' youth to her husband's recent death, with many illuminating stops—geographical and temporal—in between...
Mending Horses
Gr 5–8—Barker's stand-alone sequel to A Difficult Boy(Holiday House, 2008) opens with a terrifying exhibition of injustice resulting from a once-virulent prejudice many readers may find unfamiliar...
Under the Same Sun
K-Gr 3—This earnest, though overstuffed, story begins as a dual celebration of the author's loving family and of the culture and landscape of Tanzania...
The Other Side of Free
Gr 4–6—A stern, exacting woman named Phaedra fosters 13-year-old Jem in Fort Mose, a Spanish enclave for escaped slaves in 18th- century Florida...
Duke
Gr 4–7—A handsome German shepherd dominates the patriotic cover of Larson's World War II home-front novel, but the book's action centers on the dog's absence...
Mysterious Traveler
Gr 2–5—Peet and Graham team up again for an original folktale, this one inspired by the guides who navigate the Sahara in Mali...
White Fang
Gr 2–4—London's novel portrays the interior life of mistreated part-wolf White Fang while exploring the fundamental nature of wild animals and the brutality inherent in vast Alaskan landscapes and inside men's hearts...
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