Austin's honest and offbeat story will inspire and affirm. Recommended for school libraries needing additions to their historical and realistic fiction collections.
Gr 6–9—Trevor, a successful play and film in the early '80s, spawned the Trevor Project, an LGBT help line for young people struggling with their sexual identity...
Gr 4–7—Miller's family is deeply entrenched in the annual town fair, and Miller has been planning and saving for months for a day of games and rides and fair food while his parents volunteer at events...
Gr 1—3—When literal-minded little Amelia Bedelia goes on a class trip to Fairview Farm, she goes in search of the farmer's wife's "green thumb," "shakes her leg" when told to hurry, corrects a classmate who calls the rooster a "loudmouth" by saying it's a "loud beak," and pitches the lunch salad all over the farm when asked to toss it...